Hey guys! So, I realized I left out a ton of writers in the original post, so I decided to make a second part (the first part is here)! I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes I collected and more writers and add them to your collection as well!
“We are what we believe we are.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.”
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”
“It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.”
“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.””
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
“Time and tide wait for no man.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”
“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Follow your honest convictions and be strong.”
“I would rather make my name than inherit it.”
“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“I dwell in possibility.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“Beauty without expression is boring.”
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
“What you are comes to you.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
“Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.”
“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”
“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
“Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
“A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.”
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
“Despair has its own calms.”
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
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