“If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.”
Anthony Bourdain · Parts Unknown
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Inspiration Quotes
120 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“Keep close to nature's heart and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.”
John Muir · John of the Mountains, 1938
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1856
“The forest would be silent if no bird sang except the one that sang best.”
African Proverb
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
African Proverb
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Plato
“I was born to play football, just as Beethoven was born to write music.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 2011
“Your limitation—it's only your imagination. Push beyond limits.”
Unknown · commonly attributed to various sources
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · widely attributed
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins · widely attributed
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela · widely attributed
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · widely attributed
“Each morning brings new potential, but only if we are willing to wake up to it.”
Mark Nepo · The Book of Awakening
