Inspirational Quotes from Well-known People

A collage of famous peopleWe all need a little boost every now and then. Inspirational quotes are a quick and easy way to boost your mood and your morale.  The following quotes are from many famous people.  I tried to choose a picture that contained many recognizable famous people but I don’t think it’s a very good one.  I may change the picture when I find a better one.

“Beauty is not something you buy; instead, beauty is what lies within.” — Byron Pulsifer

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” — Edgar Allen Poe

“Beauty is all around us amidst strife and turmoil to be seen by those who look not to those who wish.” — Byron Pulsifer

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” — Brian Tracy

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Henry Ford

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” — Lawrence J. Peter

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” — Larry Elder

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Les Brown

“Truth isn’t all about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted.” — Byron Pulsifer

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” — Abraham Lincoln

“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.” — Adrienne Rich

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” — Galileo Galilei

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” — Albert Einstein

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.” — Jane Haddam

“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you have no respect for your own values how can you be worthy of respect from others.” — Byron Pulsifer

“Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.” — Byron Pulsifer

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” — Frederick Douglass

“If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” — Anne Frank

“Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.” — Toni Morrison

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings.” — Richard Dawkins

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” — Rachel Carson

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.” — Pearl S. Buck