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Welcome to a collection of 188 rare quotes, each brimming with inspiration. These quotes may not be widely known, but their power and depth make them deserving of more attention.
Each quote in this list offers a unique perspective, shedding light on various aspects of life, happiness, success, and perseverance. These quotes can uplift, challenge, and inspire you in unexpected ways.
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind.” – Emilee Rivera
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
- “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
- “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
- “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Anonymous
- “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous
- “Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour.” – Martel, Yann
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
- “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” – Anonymous
- “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents – start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “I didn’t come this far, to only come this far.” – Unknown
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
- “Dream bigger. Do bigger.” – Unknown
- “Little things make big days.” – Unknown
- “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.” – Unknown
- “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – LL Cool J
- “Little things can make a big difference.” – Unknown
- “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.” – Unknown
- “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.” – Unknown
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
- “Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Unknown
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “You don’t have to be extreme, just consistent.” – Unknown
- “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Unknown
- “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Unknown
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Unknown
- “It’s going to be hard, but hard doesn’t mean impossible.” – Unknown
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes later becomes never.” – Unknown
- Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Unknown
- “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” – Unknown
- “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – Unknown
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “There are no limits, only plateaus. And you must not stay there. You must go beyond them.” – Master Oogway
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Unknown
- “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Wilferd Peterson
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
- “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka
- “New York City is a place where the impossible becomes possible.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” – John Green
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
- “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” – Bruce Lee
- “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
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
