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Famous Inspirational Quotes

What makes a quotation a famous inspirational quote?

Hmm, well whether it's about sport or business or success or failure, it has to be a quotation that we've all heard, I guess, or has to be said by someone famous. That's what I think, anyway - what do you think?

Those are the types of quotes and quotations listed here, anyway. Yes, you'll find only the best inspirational quotes here - famous quotes inspirational, inspirational quotes and poems, etc. Quotes like this one, from William Churchill(*)

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

And, as there is no time like the present (who said that, then?), I think Gandhi has something he wants to tell you...

Famous Quotations - Free Inspirational Quotes

Famous inspirational quotes - what they say...

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
-- Mother Teresa

"You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt."
-- Meme Grifsters

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
-- Anne Frank

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
-- Pablo Picasso

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-- Calvin Coolidge

"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill

( What do you think of these famous inspirational quotes? )

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were..."
-- John F. Kennedy

"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

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
-- Henry Ford

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
-- Plato

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
-- Chinese proverb

"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."
-- Dale Carnegie

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
-- Buddha

"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
-- Carl Jung

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
-- E.M. Forster

"Love is all you need"
-- John Lennon

(If all these famous inspirational quotes are a tad tiring why not read about what those sports guys think on this inspirational sports quote?)

Not quite so famous inspirational quotes - what they say...

"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
-- Oprah Winfrey

"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."
-- Harrison Ford

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
-- Sophia Loren

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
-- Dalai Lama

"Live every day like it's your last cause one day you're gonna be right."
-- Ray Charles

"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."
-- Björn Borg

"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
-- Clint Eastwood

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
-- Aristotle

"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."
-- Viktor E. Frankl

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
-- Albert Einstein

"If you find something you really love, you will never work again."
-- Winston Churchill

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'"
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
-- Jonathan Winters

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
-- Napoleon Hill

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
-- Leo Tolstoy

(*) Find more famous inspirational quotations here... and more quotations from Winston Churchill here... And don't ask me why there were no famous inspiratinal quotes from Oscar Wilde because he really did come up with some famous quotations in his time. Maybe later. If you promise to come back! :-)

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