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Inspiration Quotes

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

“I think more conceptually about pictures now, in a new way, and it's much freer.”

David Hockney · Interview, 2018

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

Unknown

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

Jack Canfield

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

Japanese proverb

“You've been so alone. And you think that's the price of being extraordinary. And maybe it is. But you've been paying it so long.”

Molly Hooper · BBC Sherlock, Series 4, Episode 3: The Final Problem, 2017

“Brainy is the new sexy.”

Irene Adler · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver · The Summer Day, 1990

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”

Marilyn Monroe

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen · Anthem, 1992

“Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

Christopher Robin · The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, 1928

“I want to make music that is as natural as a forest.”

Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Confucius · Widely attributed to Confucius

“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Dylan Thomas · Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, 1951

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein · attributed, widely documented