Self Improvement: Inspirational Quotes

What makes you feel inspired? There are a lot of great ways to feel energized and inspired. Here are some uplifting words to reflect on and share with others. The beauty of inspirational quotes is how you make use of them! In just a few simple words you can learn lessons from someone's entire lifetime. They make you think and put your mind to work, all while making you understand more about a subject. Words are powerful and people who are drawn to motivational messages feel that they are a powerful incentive for trying to meet goals. These motivating quotes are great for increasing positive feelings and for sparking creativity. Hopefully they inspire you to do great things!

1. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

2. "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem." - Brian Aldiss

3. "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

4. "More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator." - Margaret Atwood

5. "Creativity is not something you pluck off a shelf, it only becomes evident after years of practice, experimentation and effort." - Don Getz

7. "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso

8. "Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world" - Helen Keller

10. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

11. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

12. "If you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

13. "I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear." - Tupac Shakur

14. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

15. "Leave no stone unturned." - Euripides

16. "The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

17. "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do… I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there." - Mother Teresa

18. "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu

19. "There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits." - Michael Phelps

20. "It is wiser to find out than to suppose." - Mark Twain

21. "Always desire to learn something useful." - Sophocles

22. "Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse." - J.K. Rowling

23. "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball

24. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - C.S. Lewis

25. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
26. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

27. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." - Tony Robbins

28. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

29. "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

30. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life" - Steve Jobs

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