We know that at some point in your life you have found yourself down in the dumps and in need of motivation to do things, well we have got the just the thing for you. We have assembled a list of inspirational quotes for famous and successful people who have decided to share something wise to help others and to show them how they managed to be so successful. 
From Einstein to Martin Luther King every single one of those extremely successful or just important people when it comes to our history have had one of those moments where they said something amazingly inspirational, and even though they had a huge effect back then their words are still alive through the internet and books and people who remember what they said and that’s exactly what these quotes are here for, to inspire a new generation. Now let’s get into the list of these inspirational quotes.

• “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
• “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

  

• “What’s meant to be will always find a way”
• “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
• “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
• “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
• “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”
• “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
• “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
• “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
• “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
• “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
• “Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”
• “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
• “Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need the discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
• “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
• “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
• “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
• “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”

• “If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.”
• “Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.”
• “When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
• “I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.”
• “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
• “The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”
• “To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.”
• “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”
• “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”
• “Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.”
• “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
• Listen to it carefully.”
• “A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”
• “Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone’s day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.”
• “You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most importantly, you should always remind yourself that you don’t have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given.”
• “Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.”

• “A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better.”
• “People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
• “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”
• “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.”
• “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”
• “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
• “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
• “I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.”
• “Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
• “Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you first create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
• “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
• “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
• “Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
• “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
• “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
• “Whining is not only graceless but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
• “You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”
• “Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.”
• “Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
• “Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.”

• “Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.”
• “There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.”
• “I don’t know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another’s skin on my skin…a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.”
• “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
• “If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
• “There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say “I will be ready when I am perfect” because then you will never be ready, rather one must say “I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.”
• “We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who’s right and who’s wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don’t like about our associates or our society.
• “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that! I’m always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.”
• “Don’t give me songs, give me something to sing about!”
• “You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.”

• “If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.”
• “You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.”
• “Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner.”
• “Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
• “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
• “Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”
• “Like madness is the glory of this life.”
• “No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.”
• “Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”
• “Sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character…
• “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
• “Imagine others complexly.”
• “Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do.”

• “The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made in different colors and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that’s beautiful. And that’s okay. In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.”
• “Be the kind of person who dares to face life’s challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.”
• “Until you change how you get things done, you’ll never know what works best.”
• “The world is merciless, and it’s also very beautiful.”
• “Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.”
• “I don’t know exactly where ideas come from, but when I’m working well ideas just appear. I’ve heard other people say similar things – so it’s one of the ways I know there’s help and guidance out there. It’s just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.”
• “Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
• “Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
• “At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”
• “Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.”
• “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
• “‎”What does it mean if I’m afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?” “No, it doesn’t mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.”
• “A mind possessed by unmade books.”

• “People are successful because they think and act like successful people.”
• “I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
• “It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we’d like to be. That’s not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you’ve accomplished, rather than thinking of what’s left to be done (p. 159).”
• “Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence, Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”
• “Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.”
• “I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.”
• “A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate life as well as to update the life.”
• “Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available on this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you’ve had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly.”
• “Do more listening than talking; talk more about them than about you.”

• “The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, midwifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; it does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity-driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek – it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language – all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
• “When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed the difference. I’ve always dreamt big.”
• “Life is difficult for everyone. We all have stress and we all need someone in our lives that we can lean on. Never think that you cannot talk to someone because they have problems or that your friend or loved one would be better off without you or your problems. You’ll soon find out that they need you just as much as you need them.”
• “Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”
• “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.”
• “The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.”
• “I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be. ”
• “I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it”

• “Pippa’s laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. ‘Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It’s misery. I wish I were someone else.”
• “Emotion is ‘recognition’. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling inspiration. (“Those journeys of love”)”
• “We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.”
• “you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.”
• “Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life.”
• “If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.”
• “We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”