Powerful Inspirational Quotes

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Leadership, Business, Motivation

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Life, Confidence, Fear

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

Amelia Earhart

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Confidence, Fear, Light

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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