What are the most inspiring quotes you know?

Question

I love to read different quotes. And i am always looking for good ones to add to my book. they can be about anything.

Answer 1

It is more important to be kind than to be right
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
- Bernard Meltzer

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
- Epictetus

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Siddhartha Gautama

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing
- Elbert Hubbard

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley

Turn your wounds into wisdom
- Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
- Anonymous

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen Covey

You often meet your destiny on the road you've taken to avoid it.
- Anonymous

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
- Helen Keller

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
- Lester Levinson

Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.
- Sam Rosen

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
- Confucius

I believe everything happens for a reason and situation even bad ones, make you stronger.
- Mya

If you want to be understood…Listen.
- (Babel, 2006)

Happiness is being married to your best friend.
- Nicole Louise Divino

Answer 2

Not so much inspiring, more absolutely fantastic: "Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word where a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague." - William Safire

Answer 3

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, & sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe & comfortable, but dull & utterly pointless.

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You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance
and write poems and suffer and understand,
for all of that is life.

Answer 4

this is by far the best one i have come across. I always keep it in mind so that i can create something new.
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."-Douglas Everett

Answer 5

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
-William Shakespeare

When nothing is sure, anything is possible
-Margaret Drabble

“Places you are tied down to – none. People with a hold on you – none. Men you step aside for – none.” – The Magnificent Seven

Answer 6

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.


Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 7

"I am better than I was yesterday, and I'm greater than I am today".
This quote I made up myself always makes me want to excel and achieve more every day.

Answer 8

Not everything that can be counted counts
and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Mark Twain
Reach for the moon, at least if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Answer 9

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Answer 10

Give your kid a smack every day. Even if you don't know what he did.
He'll know.