450 Inspiring Quote for the Day to Motivate You

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Everyone needs a little motivation sometimes. Reading an inspiring quote can give you the boost you need to keep going when things get tough. This collection of 450 quotes covers topics like success, life, positivity, leadership, and more. Start your day by reading one of these quotes to get inspired and motivated.

Motivational Quotes to Inspire Success

1. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

3. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

4. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

5. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

6. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

7. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

8. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

9. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

10. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Inspirational Quotes About Life

11. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

12. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

13. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

14. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

15. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

16. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

17. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

18. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

19. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

20. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

21. Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

22. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

23. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

24. The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

25. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes.

26. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

27. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.

28. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

29. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

30. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Leadership Quotes to Inspire

31. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

32. Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.

33. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.

34. A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

35. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

36. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

37. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.

38. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

39. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

40. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Teamwork Quotes for Collaboration

41. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

42. Teamwork makes the dream work.

43. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

44. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

45. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

46. None of us is as smart as all of us.

47. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

48. Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

49. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

50. Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

51. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.

52. I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

53. I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

54. I’m not saying I’m Wonder Woman, I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Wonder Woman in the same room together.

55. I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.

56. I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

57. I don’t need Google, my wife knows everything.

58. I’m not lazy, I’m just on energy-saving mode.

59. I don’t always have the energy to pretend to like people today.

60. I’m not saying I’m Batman. I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

Short Quotes for Quick Inspiration

61. Dream big.

62. Stay focused.

63. Be yourself.

64. Never give up.

65. Make it happen.

66. Believe in yourself.

67. Think positive.

68. Work hard.

69. Stay humble.

70. Keep going.

Quotes About Change and Growth

71. Change is the only constant in life.

72. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

73. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

74. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

75. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

76. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

77. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

78. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

79. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

80. You must be the change you want to see in the world.

81. Fall seven times, stand up eight.

82. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

83. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

84. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

85. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

86. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

87. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

88. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

89. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

90. The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

Quotes About Dreams and Goals

91. A goal is a dream with a deadline.

92. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

93. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

94. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

95. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

96. The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.

97. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

98. Dreams don’t work unless you do.

99. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

100. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Quotes About Time Management

101. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

102. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

103. Lost time is never found again.

104. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

105. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

106. Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.

107. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

108. Time is the wisest counselor of all.

109. Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to’.

110. The trouble is, you think you have time.

111. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

112. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

113. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

114. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.

115. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

116. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

117. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

118. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

119. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

120. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Quotes About Courage and Bravery

121. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

122. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

123. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

124. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

125. Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

126. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

127. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

128. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

129. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

130. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Quotes About Kindness and Compassion

131. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

132. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

133. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

134. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

135. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

136. Compassion is the basis of morality.

137. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

138. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

139. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

140. Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

141. Creativity is intelligence having fun.

142. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

143. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

144. Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.

145. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

146. Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

147. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

148. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

149. To be creative means to be in love with life.

150. Creativity takes courage.

Quotes About Friendship

151. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

152. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

153. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

154. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

155. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

156. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

157. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

158. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

159. A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.

160. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Quotes About Love

161. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

162. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

163. Where there is love there is life.

164. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

165. Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

166. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

167. Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.

168. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

169. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

170. Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

171. Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.

172. The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

173. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

174. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

175. The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

176. In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

177. Family is the most important thing in the world.

178. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

179. Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

180. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Quotes About Health and Wellness

181. The greatest wealth is health.

182. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

183. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

184. To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

185. The first wealth is health.

186. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

187. A healthy outside starts from the inside.

188. The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

189. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

190. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Quotes About Nature and Environment

191. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

192. The earth has music for those who listen.

193. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

194. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

195. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

196. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

197. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

198. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

199. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

200. The earth laughs in flowers.

201. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

202. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

203. Not all those who wander are lost.

204. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

205. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

206. Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

207. To travel is to live.

208. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

209. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

210. Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Quotes About Music and Art

211. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

212. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

213. Without music, life would be a mistake.

214. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

215. Music is the universal language of mankind.

216. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

217. Where words fail, music speaks.

218. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

219. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

220. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Quotes About Reading and Writing

221. A room without books is like a body without a soul.

222. There is no friend as loyal as a book.

223. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

224. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

225. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

226. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

227. The world belongs to those who read.

228. You can make anything by writing.

229. A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

230. Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

231. The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

232. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

233. The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

234. Technology is best when it brings people together.

235. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

236. The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

237. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

238. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

239. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

240. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Quotes About Sports and Fitness

241. Champions keep playing until they get it right.

242. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

243. The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

244. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

245. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.

246. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

247. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

248. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

249. You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

250. Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.

Quotes About Food and Cooking

251. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

252. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

253. The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.

254. People who love to eat are always the best people.

255. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

256. Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

257. A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

258. The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

259. Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.

260. Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

261. Money often costs too much.

262. The lack of money is the root of all evil.

263. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

264. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

265. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

266. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

267. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

268. It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

269. The more you learn, the more you earn.

270. Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.

Quotes About Business and Entrepreneurship

271. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

272. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

273. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

274. The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

275. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

276. If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

277. Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.

278. The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

279. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

280. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Quotes About Politics and Government

281. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

282. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

283. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

284. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

285. The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

286. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

287. In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

288. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

289. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

290. Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

291. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

292. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

293. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

295. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

296. History is a set of lies agreed upon.

297. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

298. History is written by the victors.

299. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

300. History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Quotes About Philosophy

301. The unexamined life is not worth living.

302. I think, therefore I am.

303. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

304. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

305. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

306. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

307. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

308. To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

309. The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

310. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Quotes About Religion and Spirituality

311. Religion is the opium of the people.

312. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

313. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

314. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

315. Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.

316. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

317. Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

318. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

319. The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

320. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

321. The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

322. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

323. The mind is everything. What you think you become.

324. You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

325. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

326. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

327. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

328. It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.

329. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

330. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Quotes About Language and Communication

331. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

332. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

333. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

334. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

335. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

336. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

337. Language is the dress of thought.

338. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

339. Language is wine upon the lips.

340. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Quotes About Relationships

341. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

342. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

343. You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

344. The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

345. Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

346. The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

347. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

348. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

349. Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.

350. Love is a game that two can play and both win.

351. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

352. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

353. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

354. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

355. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

356. It is never too late to be what you might have been.

357. The mind is everything. What you think you become.

358. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

359. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

360. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Quotes About Happiness

361. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

362. Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

363. The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.

364. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

365. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

366. Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.

367. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

368. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

369. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

370. If you want to be happy, be.

Quotes About Wisdom

371. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

372. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

373. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

374. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

375. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

376. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

377. The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

378. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

379. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

380. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

381. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

382. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

383. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

384. Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

385. Patience is the companion of wisdom.

386. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

387. Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

388. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

389. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

390. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Quotes About Gratitude

391. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

392. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

393. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

394. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

395. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

396. Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.

397. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

398. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

399. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

400. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Quotes About Forgiveness

401. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

402. To err is human, to forgive, divine.

403. Forgiveness is the final form of love.

404. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

405. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

406. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

407. Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

408. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

409. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

410. The highest result of education is tolerance.

411. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

412. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

413. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

414. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

415. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

416. Hope is a waking dream.

417. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

418. Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

419. Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

420. While there’s life, there’s hope.

Quotes About Perseverance

421. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

422. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

423. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

424. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

425. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

426. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

427. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

428. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

429. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

430. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Quotes About Resilience

431. The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.

432. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

433. The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

434. Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.

435. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

436. It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.

437. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

438. No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.

439. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

440. Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

441. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

442. The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.

443. Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

444. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.

445. The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

446. Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different.

447. Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

448. The mind is everything. What you think you become.

449. Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.

450. Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

These 450 quotes cover a wide range of topics and offer wisdom, inspiration, and food for thought. Whether you’re looking for motivation, comfort, or simply a new perspective, there’s likely a quote here that speaks to you. Remember, the power of a quote lies not just in its words, but in how you interpret and apply it to your own life. Let these quotes inspire you to reflect, grow, and make positive changes in your life and the world around you.