Lots Powerful Inspiring Words, Inspiration Quotes and Motivational Phrases

If you're feeling down, blue or numb, which we all do sometimes, inspiring words and motivational phrases may be just what you need in order to make through the day. 

And just perhaps, if you're open to it, these inspirational life quotes and motivational words may do even more than that.

Because you see, the inspirational phrases on this page, are not only uplifting, happy and positive, they also contain deeply wise messages that may hit straight in your heart and which you could choose to live by ... if you wanted to!

It's all a matter of choosing!

Let's start off this page about inspirational life quotes with a quick word on inspiration itself:

Without inspiration, food has no taste, flowers have no colors, and life has no meaning. With inspiration, even the smallest meal is a banquet, every flower is the most beautiful of God's creations, and life is something to be lived and experienced to the fullest.
~ Andrew Peloquin ~

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The Best Inspiring Quotes Cut Through Time and Space

Many wise men and women throughout history have said many inspiring words to live by, and even though some of them are centuries old, they ring true to this day.

Time, norms and external circumstances change, but real the essence of human nature doesn't!

This is what is so fascinating about the really good and powerful inspirational life quotes.

No matter where, at which time, in which culture the person who made the inspirational life quote came from, if it is really deep and wise, everybody everywhere who opens up and tunes in to it, can understand it and benefit from it.

That, my friend, is raw power!

Here are some inspirational quotes and sayings and motivational words:

At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you really want.
~ Lao Tzu ~

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory.
~ Betty Smith ~

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosever loves much performs much, and can accomplish love, and what is done in love is done well.
~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

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Finding Deep Knowledge in Inspirational Quotes

Famous people throughout history have inspired thousands with their motivational phrases.

You, too, can receive inspiration and joy through reading these inspirational life quotes.

Through their quotes and sayings successful and famous people throughout history reveal how they lived, chose and navigated lived their lives. This is invaluable knowledge.

Taking in these inspirational life quotes can be an easy, yet extremely powerful way to help you get insight into how to live your life.

A really good inspirational life quote is by Mahatma Ghandi where he mediates truth about the fact that real change that comes from within will almost always leave a positive print in world:

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

If you try to live by these inspiring words, you will find that life will truly be a better place. All change starts with yourself!

Here are some more motivational phrases that you can take to heart as you go about your day to day life:

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are you ready?
~ Johnny Carson ~

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
~ Buddha

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate that which you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work gives you as much pleasure as your spare time.
~ Pablo Picasso ~

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Yes, fear is one of the greatest obstacles to living a full life and living out our inner potentials. Fear is often the reason why we follow norms, let systems dictate our actions or try to please people.

Looking fear in the face, feeling it and still not obeying it - that is true strength!

In the quote below Steve Jobs doesn't mention fear as such but the essence of having the courage to not be caught up in fear and follow your own way is clear:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs ~

Here are some more inspiring words and motivational words:

There is a theory which states that if every anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something else even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory that states that this has already happened.
~ Funny Saying ~

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched or seen; they must be felt with the heart.
~ Inspiring Words to Live By ~

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, but small minds discuss people.
~ Funny Saying ~

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Inspirational Life Quotes to Help You Through the Tough Times

There are many lessons that each of us has to learn in life, and not all of them are going to be fun.

The important thing to remember about life lessons is that they are exactly what we need at a certain time and place. Always!

Everyone has to go through a number of trials and tests in order to become the person that they were meant to be.

If you really want to get through life more easily and acceptingly, then you need to embrace each test as being good for you.

Life does actually only want the best for you even though it may not seem that way!

There are a number of excellent inspirational life quotes that can help you make it through the rough times that life may throw at you.

A personal favorite quote of mine is:

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
~ Pablo Casals ~

Every inspirational life quote that gives you the motivation to make it through another day is exactly what you need, and we hope you find some strength through reading the following inspiring words:

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. After that obstacle, then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
~ Alfred D. Souza ~

Don't put off living to next week, next month, next year, or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in the moment.
~ Inspirational Life Quotes ~

Yes, like both Alfred D. Souza and the directly above example of inspirational life quotes convey: it is so easy to get distracted from really living life.

And it's really quite silly, because deep down we all want to be happy and doing what we love.

But the problem is that we have acquired the belief that it isn't possible to do what we love. We believe there are too many consequences to living out our full potential so it's much easier to remain in our numb comfort zone and reacting because of fear rather than facing life and acting as our own creator.

Life's a funny one, hey!

Here are some more motivational phrases and inspirational quotes.

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.
~ Inspirational Life Quotes ~

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
~ T. S. Eliot ~

If wrinkles be written on your brow, let them not be written on your heart. The spirit should not grow old.
~ James A. Garfield ~

A surprisingly profound quote comes from Dreamworks' animated movie "Kung Fu Panda".

In "Kung Fu Panda", the wise old turtle tells the panda, Po, The past is history and the future is a mystery; that's why it's called the present.

Wonderful play of words, isn't it!

Here are some more great motivational words and inspiring words:

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that, because what the world needs is people that are alive.
~ Howard Thurman ~

Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don't spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.
~ Inspirational Life Quotes ~

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 Quotes about Happiness

Many people around the world walk through life treating themselves as if they were meant to suffer.

Most often it's not a conscious thing they do. It's just a result of cultural imprints and dominating value and belief systems based on fear and transmitting the message that individual suffering is necessary for greater social good.

However, we here at Quotescoop.com are arrogant enough to believe that every single human being on the planet is entitled to one thing above all else: the right to be happy.

Life itself doesn't want anybody to be unhappy. Life prefers its element to work. To do their best. To be well functioning. Because that is how life reaches harmony.

Happiness is the key to living life, something that Vernon Howard put so succinctly:

Happiness is a liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
~ Vernon Howard ~

There really is no secret to happiness, other than giving happiness to those around you.
~ Andrew Peloquin ~

Read the following short inspirational quotes on happiness to get some motivation, and you will find that each of the inspirational quotes and sayings can give you a bit of wisdom that will make you realize the value of being happy:

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~

Happiness is excitement that has found a place to settle down. But there is always a little corner that is flapping around.
~ E. L. Konigsburg ~

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
~ Cynthia Nelms ~

If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~

This quote by Leo Tolstoy is simple that most people wouldn't really pay attention to it or just pass over it as being banal.

Yet the message so powerful and very few people actually master it.

To be happy just be.

Don't think. Don't plan. Don't indulge in memories.

Just Be.

Try it!

Because then you'll know that when you just ARE without thoughts it is IMPOSSIBLE not to be happy.

Below in the quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne he more or less says the same just in more poetic terms:

Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
~ Robertson Davies ~

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
~ Robert Brault ~

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~ Bertrand Russell ~

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Stop up Once in a While and Smell the Flowers

The world of business is always a fast paced one, and it can be hard to pull out of a busy life of commerce and business and take time to stop and smell the flowers.

The following inspirational business quotes can help to put things into perspective for you as you go about your busy day.

There are quotes and sayings on the secret to real success, a few inspirational business quotes on finding the right balance, and inspiring words from many successful entrepreneurs.

Just because you are a man of business doesn't mean that you have to be a man of suffering.

Finding the time to enjoy life despite the pressures of your business life is important, which is one of the reasons that we have compiled the following inspirational business quotes for you:

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
~ Jack Welch ~

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct a strictly honest business.
~ Mohandas Gandhi ~

Our business in life is not get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by today.
~ Stewart B. Johnson ~

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
~ Sam Walton ~

Whenever you see a successful business, someone made a courageous decision.
~ Peter Drucker ~

Yes, this is true and we don't really realize. Those who have successful businesses more surely have had fear thrown in their more than once and didn't act according to it.

They left their comfort zone, moved beyond their fear and eventually did what they before only dreamed of.

The important thing is to not be afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is not to try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. .
~ Debbie Fields ~

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow; not next week, but today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
~ Nolan Bushnell ~

Many people think that there is a secret ingredient to success that will make their business succeed, and that secret has been summed up nicely in one of the many inspiring words of Andrew Carnegie:

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
~ Andrew Carnegie ~

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.
~ Lee Iacocca ~

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on perseverance. In the real world, all rests on perserverance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
~ Inspirational Business Quotes ~

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Quotes on Characterer

When it comes to being successful and the creator in our lives, there is nothing as important as our character.

A wise man once said, Reputation is what man thinks of us. Character is what God and the angels know us to really be.

That is a stark reminder of the importance of having integrity, honesty, and true character. Having a quality character is the only thing that will contribute to our success, and few men have ever been successful without character.

Our character is what we do when no one is watching. .
~ Andrew Peloquin ~

The reality of life is that the things that we do when no one is watching are the things that we will always do.

If we can take the following inspiration quotes on character to heart, we can start making the changes that will make us a man or woman of true integrity.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he frequently uses in conversation.
~ Mark Twain ~

Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, but the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
~ Cicero ~

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he frequently uses in conversation.
~ Mark Twain ~

This insight by Mark Twain is so true, yet very few people realize it.

If someone looks upon the world with a non-judgmental eye and attribute good qualities to people, then most likely his or her own character is similar to those attributed qualities.

And vice versa, if someone looks at the world through a lens of condemnation and has only critical things to say about other people, then yes, most likely his or her character is probably burdened by the very same characteristics that are being criticized.

Ironic isn't it!

What we see, is what we are!

Here are some more inspiring words and good quotes on character:

Character cannot be developed in ease and in quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller ~

I appreciate people that are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
~ Richard Greenberg ~

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that everything agrees with reasons and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~ Buddha ~

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Inspirational Life Quotes on Success

Success comes in many different forms, and how we handle it is a measure of who we are.

The power that comes from success may lead some people to want to control other people in order to get more power. In other words, they use their power to disempower other people.

Other people who are also successful use their power to set other people free. In other words, they use their power to empower other people.

Take a moment to reflect on this difference! It's really so important!

A personal favorite of the inspiring words and quotes on success is:

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Success follows a different path for every person, and true success is all about making the most of the journey rather than focusing on the destination.

Without spending time looking at your road to success, you will never enjoy your destination.

Many of these people went through monumental failures before achieving success.

Take up one idea, and make it your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, the muscles, the nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is the way that great spiritual giants are produced. ced.
~ Swami Vivekananda ~

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.
~ Mark Victor Hansen ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson defines what is success so beautifully below. Relax and take these inspiring words of wisdom:

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciate of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.
~ Robert Brault ~

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
~ Ross Perot ~

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

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