So I made another collection! This round of inspirational quotes goes to the philosophers. Like the other times, I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes and find them inspiring too!
Plato
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
“The good is the beautiful.”
Lao Tzu
“From caring comes courage.”
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Socrates
“Be as you wish to seem.”
“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.”
“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Be that self which one truly is.”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Hypatia
“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
Confucius
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Albert Camus
“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
