“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela · widely attributed
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Inspiration Quotes
191 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“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
