Inspirational Words to Lift Your Spirits
Our inspirational words in the form of quotes from notables were selected with the idea of lifting spirits. There are ups and downs in everyone’s lives – that’s what makes it so interesting.
Part of the trick to a successful life is not dwelling too much on the negative. These thoughts and inspirations can help. Take a look and see if you find some inspirational words to elevate your mood.
Quotes to Inspire and Motivate
When one door closes, another opens. But often, we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ovid
My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
The essential thing is not knowledge but character.
Joseph Le Conte
Do the Right Thing
A good name will shine forever.
Unknown
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet, but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
Jeremy Taylor
The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Unknown
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Lajos Kossuth
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Seek not, my soul the life of the immortals;
but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pindar
Inspirational Words
In teaching history, there should be extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgment.
Albert Einstein
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Nietzsche
We always strive after what is forbidden and desire the things refused us.
Ovid
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
A wretched soul, bruis’d with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen’d with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
Surmounted difficulties not only teach but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Unknown
Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Unknown
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Inspiring Thoughts
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield
Character is what you think in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard
Character Counts Quotes
Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
Walt Whitman
Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done, consolidates itself in the character, and will project itself onward in a permanent continuity.
Henry Giles
A man’s character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is.
Madame de la Rochejuquelein
Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
Voltaire
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Good Inspirational Words
In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Unknown
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Unknown
Tip: Look for opportunities to include quotes and inspirational words into your everyday life, e.g., boilerplate of your emails, dinner time conversation, photo captions, and more.
Be Positive Quotations
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
Ovid
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
Plato
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
C. H. Parkhurst
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
Persistent Effort Thoughts
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
All sunshine makes the desert.
Proverb
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
Inspiring Words
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
Thomas Fuller
Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember everything.
Mark Twain
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Henry David Thoreau
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and founder of Greeting Card Poet.
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