50 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You

Great quotes can be inspirational and motivational. You can use quotes to help guide your decisions in life, work and love. Here are 50 of the best inspirational quotes to motivate you:

1. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! —Audrey Hepburn
2. 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
3. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford
4. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. —Vince Lombardi
5. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. —Charles Swindoll
6. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey
7. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt
8. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. —Jimmy Dean
9. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt
10. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. —Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. —Les Brown
12. Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda
13. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. —Napoleon Hill
14. 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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. —Mark Twain
15. I’ve missed more than 9000 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
16. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. —Albert Einstein
17. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey
18. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. —Henry Ford
19. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —Alice Walker
20. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. —Amelia Earhart
21. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. —Aristotle Onassis
22. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson
23. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. —Steve Jobs
24. Change your thoughts and you change your world. —Norman Vincent Peale
25. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. —Ayn Rand
26. If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. —Vincent Van Gogh
27. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. —Farrah Gray
28. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. —Dalai Lama
29. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. —Maya Angelou
30. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. —Rosa Parks
31. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. —Vincent van Gogh
32. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. —Unknown
33. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.——Albert Einstein
34. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. —Bob Dylan
35. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. —Leonardo da Vinci
36. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. —Booker T. Washington
37. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. —Jamie Paolinetti
38. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. —Sheryl Sandberg
39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. —Ancient Indian Proverb
40. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. —Helen Keller
41. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. —Confucius
42. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank
43. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. —John Lennon
44. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. —Ronald Reagan
46. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair
47. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. —Plato
48. Nothing will work unless you do. —Maya Angelou
49. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. —Mother Teresa
50. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. —Plutarch

A version of this blog first appeared at TalentSmart.com.

5 QUICK Steps To Prepare For The Unexpected In 2018

1. Call family and friends and let them know you LOVE them. I tell EVERYONE in my family I love them EVERY TIME I see them. Make no mistake - if I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow no one in my family with wonder how I felt about them. As for close friends I routinely tell them how important they are to me and ALWAYS make the effort to see them and call them once a month.
2. Start Your Emergency Fund. Simply open a new savings account with your bank where it automatically moves a small amount into this savings account from your checking. My emergency fund has 6 months living expenses stashed in cash I never touch..... start with figuring out how much you spend monthly and first save that, then build up to 3 months and BOOM you’re ahead of 95% of people.
3. Get Life Insurance (I recommend these companies here.) Overall I have 3 policies with 3 separate companies to reduce risk and ensure my family is cared for).
4. See your doctor & dentist and get your yearly or 6-month checkup. I had a close friend die - at age 37 - of colon cancer. If it had been caught just a few month earlier he might still be alive. Don’t be stubborn here (aka stupid). Take care of your body - it’s the only one you have.
5. Speaking of body - take one action to better take care of yours. A simple daily walk, 30 minutes of meditation or reading in the morning, and of course actually going to the gym (not just having a membership. What’s really helped me is accountability with a trainer.

I sincerely wish you a great 2018!

Is your retirement plan ready to go?

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(Inspiration) A lie exposed… and shredded

If you’re “middle-aged” ‒ say, somewhere in your 40’s or 50’s (or these days, maybe even your 60’s!) ‒ then this one’s for you...

And even if you’re not, pay attention anyway, because this is important.   

Fact is, it’s so very easy to get caught up in stuff ‒ parenting, working, staying in shape, working even more, worrying about crap. It never really ends. Then there’s that oh-so-precious commodity...   

Time.   

That’s right, time. You had so much of it when you were younger… and so little left after you’ve added a few decades to your “School of Reality” resume. Where did it go? And how can you possibly make the major lifestyle changes you need and want to make… when you’re already “over the hill”?   

Seems like it’s pretty much hopeless to think you can keep up with… let alone adapt to… all the new trends and challenges coming at you every single day.   

At least, that’s how a lot of folks think about it. That’s how they feel about it…   

I get it. Sure, as we get a bit older, a bit more experienced, it can be tempting to feel and think that way. But that doesn’t mean we should give in to the temptation. Not at all…   

There’s a much better way to handle this ‒ here’s what it is:   

Short video: Insanely successful “old guy” rips the over-the-hill LIE to shreds.   

To your success!