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Inspiration Quotes

182 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

The Cheshire Cat · Popularly attributed to the Cheshire Cat, not in Carroll's original text

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

The White Queen · Through the Looking-Glass, 1871

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

Aristotle

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Maya Angelou · widely attributed

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

Maya Angelou · widely attributed

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

Maya Angelou · interview, 1977

“The moment you think about giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long.”

Cristiano Ronaldo

“There are no limits. There is only your imagination and hard work.”

Cristiano Ronaldo

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.”

Wayne Gretzky · widely attributed