English Quotes
Wisdom, Inspiration & Timeless Reflections
Inspiration
30 Quotes
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
Light tomorrow with today.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Wisdom
30 Quotes
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Wisdom is not found in books alone. Experience is the best teacher.
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Know thyself — all wisdom begins with knowing yourself.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: reflection, imitation, and experience.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
It is not length of life, but depth of life that matters.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Success
30 Quotes
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
You become what you believe. Not what you think, but what you truly believe.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Love & Life
30 Quotes
The heart wants what it wants. Or else it does not care.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Where there is love there is life.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
We are most alive when we're in love.
Motivation
30 Quotes
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
Great things never come from comfort zones.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Success doesn't just find you. You have to go out and get it.
The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.
Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.
Little things make big days.
It's going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.
Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.
Dream bigger. Do bigger.
You don't have to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Your limitation — it's only your imagination.
Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.
Great things take time. Be patient.
Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.
Dream it. Wish it. Do it.
Stay focused and never give up.
Every day is a second chance.
Be stronger than your excuses.
You've got what it takes, but it will take everything you've got.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
The expert in anything was once a beginner.
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.