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:
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” – Emerson
- “Faith is the bird that sees the dawn much before the darkness is gone” – Ayn Rand
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle” – Christian Larson
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples” – Mother Teresa
- “You become what you believe” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity” – Amelia Earhart
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” – Anne Frank
- “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” – George Addair
- “Dream big and dare to fail” – Norman Vaughan
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try” – Beverly Sills
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius
- “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” – Lewis
- “Many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears” – Brown
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Get on” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “I attribute my success to this, I never gave or took any excuse” – Florence Nightingale
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom” – Vincent van Gogh
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
- “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve” – Napoleon Hill
- “Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” – Mark Twain
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” – Lincoln
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood” – Emerson
- “You will face many defeats in life, never let yourself be defeated” – Maya Angelou
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” – Babe Ruth
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins
- “In life we cannot do great things. We can do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile” – Albert Einstein
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” – Mae West
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life imagined” – Thoreau
- “Greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising when we fall” – Mandela
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “Life is a long lesson in humility” – James Barrie
- “Love the life you live. Live the life you love” – Bob Marley
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – G.B Shaw
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up” – Thomas Edison
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” – E.E. Cummings
- “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are” – Beyoncé
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” – Winston Churchill
- “To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try” – Rosa Parks
- “All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right” – Billie Jean King
- “Whatever fear I have in me, my desire to win is always stronger” – Serena Williams
- “Believe, just believe” – Aristotle
- “If you’re going to take bold bets, they’re going to be experiments. You won’t know ahead of time if they’re going to work. Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes compensate for dozens of things that didn’t work” – Jeff Bezos