A wise quote at the right time can have a profound impact on your life. It can instantly change the way you think, feel, and behave. But it can also motivate you to take action and to work hard towards the accomplishment of your goals. In fact, the right quote at the right time may even help you to ignite your inner fire. And once this inner fire has been ignited, nothing can ever stand in-between you and success. Even more so, it is this inner determination that encourages you to overcome all the obstacles on your path. The great difficulty, however, lies in finding brilliant quotes that are both uniquely motivating and extraordinarily inspiring. But worry not, we’ve done all the work for you. In the following, you can find a massive collection of truly amazing quotes that help you to succeed in life.
This collection of amazing quotes serves one purpose: to help you jump start your life and to inspire greatness. For this reason, we’ve created a well-balanced selection of fascinating quotes that help you to transform every aspect of your life.
“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway
The following presents the amazing quotes that will encourage you to do whatever it takes to reach your goals. Even more so, these quotes have the power to always help you get back up from the ground whenever life pushes you down.
Some of these fantastic quotes will show you how you can transform failure to success. Other quotes will help you to realign your values in a more beneficial way so as to inspire success and greatness. Yet other amazing quotes in this list will simply inspire you to dream big. Whatever is the case, these other quotes that enable you to profoundly improve your life.
Enjoy the following selection of amazing quotes.
Let’s have a look at these amazing quotes from extraordinary individuals.
111 Amazing Quotes to Rock Your Life
What is wonderful about the following quotes is that they stem from truly unique individuals. As such, the authors of these quotes made extraordinary experiences during their lifetimes. Even more so, many of them were confronted with larger-than-life obstacles. Still, they all managed to find inspiring strategies to overcome all the problems they encountered.
As a result of their unique experiences, many of these successful individuals condensed their knowledge into some truly wise and amazing statements. By reading their thoughts on many different topics, you can learn a great deal from these people’s wisdom.
Here are these amazing quotes:
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“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
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Henry S. Haskins
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“You see things, and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
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“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks!”
Phillips Brooks
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“Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
Thomas Carlyle
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“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
Washington Irving
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“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle Onassis
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“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”
Mary Kay Ash
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“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
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“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
Denis Waitley
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.”
Billy Graham
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
Josh Billings
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay
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“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Joshua J. Marine
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“Soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.”
Ovid
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“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
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“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
Fred Shero
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor E. Frankl
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on.”
Robert Frost
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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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“You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”
James R. Sherman
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“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
Robert H. Schuller
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions — the hero and the sidekick.”
Laurence Shames
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“The next time you’re faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.”
Stacey Kramer
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote
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“Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.”
Vance Havner
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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Plutarch
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
Robert Brault
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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
William Bruce Cameron
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“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
Martha Washington
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anaïs
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“Let the refining and improving your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Swami Vivekananda
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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
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“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
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“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
Joe Girard
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Walter Scott
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison
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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
János Arany
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
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“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
Dudley Field Malone
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
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“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”
Frank Zappa
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“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
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“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
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“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight–it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Fairytales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman
78.
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy
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“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”
Joe Clark
80.
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Heraclitus
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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”
Seth Godin
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“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”
Socrates
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Ayn Rand
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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
Democritus
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“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John A. Shedd
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
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“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
98.
“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
Coleman Cox
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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Khalil Gibran
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
102.
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”
André Gide
103.
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
Dr. Seuss
104.
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
Margaret Fuller
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
Henry Ford
106.
“Don’t find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.”
Henry Ford
107.
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
108.
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
109.
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Norman Vincent Peale
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde
I hope you enjoyed reading through this selection of amazing quotes.
Stay victorious!
