Famous Inspirational Quotes

Famous inspirational quotes

Famous inspirational quotes give a lasting impression of wonderful inspirational events or moments occurring throughout history. Whether your particular forte is films, sports or books there is a famous inspirational quote or a famous inspirational personality who has touched your heart and has captured a momentous event through the power of their wisdom and words.

So what is it about these events that can inspire and bond people towards wanting to share similar opinions?

Famous quotations and famous personalities have the qualities that people associate with a winning attitude and success. A famous personality will command respect from a wide following of people simply because they have the drive and determination that allows them to achieve on a very high level and to achieve consistently.

In essence we look up to these people and we aspire to behave and adopt the same lifestyle and values that they practice.

Everyone has a desire to achieve more and operate at a higher level. Adopting these father figure famous personalities as role models sets a fulfilling benchmark in terms of the level that we need to achieve if we are to be as successful as our role models.

Even established famous personalities have role models or mentors that they themselves respect and aim to be like. For this reason alone it is no mystery as to why famous inspirational quotes have the power to inspire and motivate people.

Look upon the famous inspirational quotes contained within this page and try to reflect on your own attitude and abilities when reading the quote. If you take just a small amount of the magic in the words and apply them to your own life then fulfilment and success will be closer than you think.

Enjoy the famous inspirational quotes.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Sir William Temple

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
Lord Chesterfield

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
William Thackeray

He that will not reflect is a ruined man.
Asian Proverb

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
Hamerton

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Cicero

The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

God ever works with those who work with will.
Aeschylus

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Danny Kaye

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato

Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Proverb

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Shira Tehrani

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Ella Williams

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