Inspirational Quotes

Here are some of my favourite inspirational quotes. With the demands of work, motherhood and everyday life, it seems that we wear more hats than Samuel L. Jackson. And while it would be nice to escape the chaos and unwind at a spa to rejuvenate, it's not always a realistic option. Read these inspirational quotes and let them move you to places within yourself that don't require a passport or a babysitter.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
--Wayne Dyer

Life is too important to take seriously.
--Corky Siegel

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--E.E. Cummings

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
--Agnes Repplier

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
--Mark Twain

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
--Chinese Proverb

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
--Brian Tracy

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
--Oprah Winfrey

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

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
--Margaret B. Runbeck

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
--Oprah Winfrey

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
--Marianne Williamson

More Inspirational Quotes

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
--Brian Tracy

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them.
--Erma Bombeck

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
--Oprah Winfrey

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
--William Arthur Ward

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
--Leon J. Suenes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
--Oprah Winfrey

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