“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt · attributed
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Inspiration Quotes
191 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela · attributed
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · attributed
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius · attributed
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford commencement address, 2005
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are.”
Maya Angelou · interview, 1990s
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1865; quoted throughout Dead Poets Society
“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C.S. Lewis
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Society and Solitude, 1870
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Helen Keller · The Open Door, 1957
