Quotes on Life - Inspirational Quotes

Please enjoy this list of inspirational quotes from various sources on topics like success and life. If you have a personal favorite, please post it in the comments below!

"Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
~ Steve Jobs

"Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period."
~ Will Smith

"When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen."
~ Tony Robbins

"I am thankful to all those who said NO. Because of them, I did it myself"
~ Albert Einstein

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it"
~ Michaelangelo

"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently."
~ Pema Chödrön, Practicing Peace in Times of War

"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Maya Angelou

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing started with a dream and a mouse."
~ Walt Disney

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Ghandi

"If you're not making someone else's life better, than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people's lives better."
~ Will Smith

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
~ Vince Lombardi

"Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice."
~ After Earth

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
~ Dennis P. Kimbro

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ Dale Carnegie

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert F. Kennedy

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain

"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what a ship is built for."
~ Unknown