Starting the 1st of January 2025, the blog will pick a ‘word of the week’, to share & explore the significance of the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – inspiration.
Famous quotes for inspiration:
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud” – Maya Angelou
- “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time” – Ruth Ginsburg
- “When you put love out in the world, it travels. It can touch and reach people in ways that we never even expected” – Laverne Cox
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count” – Muhammad Ali
- “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything” – Geena Davis
- “If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built” – Simone Biles
- “Hard things will happen. We will learn, grow resilient because of it” – Taylor Swift
- “Your story is what you will always have. It’s something to own” – Michelle Obama
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist” – Oscar Wilde
- “You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty” – Lady Gaga
- “When you can’t find someone to follow, lead by example” – Roxane Gay
- “There is no better compass than compassion” – Amanda Gorman
- “A toxic desire is to be perfect. Challenge is to be whole” – Jane Fonda
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line” – Lucille Ball
- “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that we employed when we came up with them” – Albert Einstein
- “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but it has left it to us to put these pieces together” – Diane McLaren
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation” – Herman Melville
- “The pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too” – Paulo Coelho
- “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. And, the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it” – Steve Jobs
- “Try not to become a man of success, rather a man of value” – Albert Einstein
- “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new” – Augustine Mandino
- “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly and imaginatively” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “One positive thought in the morning can change your whole day” – Dalai Lama
- “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffet
- “He that can have patience can have what he will” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow” – Mary Radmacher
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” – Carl Sagan
- “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself” – Arianna Huffington
- “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more” – Erica Jong
- “If you change the way you look at things, things you look at change” – Wayne Dyer
- “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it’s more important to heed the lessons of failure”- Bill Gates
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it” – Henry Ford
- “Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart” – Drake
- “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves” – Maria Edgeworth
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why” – Mark Twain
- “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that’s where it’s at” – Jesse Owens
- “Keep a little fire burning, however small, however hidden” – Cormac McCarthy
- “What you do makes a difference, so you have to decide what kind of a difference do you want to make” – Jane Goodall
- “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different” – Coco Chanel
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen” – Michael Jordan
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
- “The only journey is the one within” – Rainer Rilke
- “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders” – Lao Tzu
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world” – Gandhi
- “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our challenges” – Ben Okri
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever” – Steve Jobs
