“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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Inspiration Quotes
191 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Things go right all the time. We just don't write laws about those.”
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“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.”
Bob Marley · Get Up, Stand Up, 1973
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
J.K. Rowling
“Heartbreak is my greatest inspiration. I wish it wasn't, but it is.”
Oliver Tree
“Music is the only place I can be completely honest.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always been the weird kid, the outcast. I just decided to own it.”
Oliver Tree · NME interview, 2020
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Strength to Love, 1963
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'”
Audrey Hepburn
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
