In a culture obsessed with measuring talent and ability, we often overlook the important role of inspiration. Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility, and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities. Inspiration may sometimes be overlooked because of its elusive nature. Its history of being treated as supernatural or divine hasn’t helped the situation. But as recent research shows, inspiration can be activated, captured, and manipulated, and it has a major effect on important life outcomes.
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve–Napoleon Hill
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.-Maya Angelou
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” –John Wooden
“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” –Anonymous
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” –Proverb
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” –Vaibhav Shah
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” –Chris Grosser
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” –Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” –Thomas A. Edison
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” –Kim Garst
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” –David Brinkley
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” –Henry Ford
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
“If you’re going through hell keep going.” –Winston Churchill
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” –Bruce Feirstein
“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” –Lolly Daskal
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” –Oprah Winfrey
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” –Anonymous
Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese