“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson", 1870
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Inspiration Quotes
120 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.”
Vincent van Gogh · Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1885
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus · Return to Tipasa, 1954
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“You can't control what people think of you. You can only control your effort and your attitude.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA press conference, 2023
“Family means everything to me. Everything I do is for them.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media day, 2022
“I'm not trying to be anybody else. I'm just trying to be the best version of myself.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2023
“The best thing I can do is lead by example. Show them what it looks like to put the work in.”
Jalen Brunson · Knicks media day, 2022
“I don't think about the outside noise. I know who I am and what I'm capable of.”
Jalen Brunson · ESPN interview, 2023
“The biggest risk is not taking a risk when the opportunity is right in front of you.”
Ashneer Grover · Doglapan, 2023
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
Barry Finlay · Kilimanjaro and Beyond, 2011
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the National Prayer Breakfast, 1963
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt · widely attributed to Roosevelt
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela · widely attributed, various speeches post-1990
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Matthew 17:20, New International Version
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou · "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise, 1978
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes · "Dreams," 1922
