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Quotes that will inspire ideas in you. Here are some short inspirational quotes that I keep handy for an inspiration boost.

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1. I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.

They don't teach you how to love somebody.
They don't teach you how to be famous.
They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.
They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.
They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind.
They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying.
They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

- Neil Gaiman


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2. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

- Mahatma Gandhi


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3. Above all, don't lie to yourself.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

And having no respect he ceases to love.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky


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4. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world:

someone to love

something to do

and something to hope for.

- Tom Bodett


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5. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

- Milan Kundera


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6. Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso


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7. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein


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8. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

- Nicholas Sparks


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9. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.

But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E.B. White


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10. Never memorize something that you can look up.

- Albert Einstein


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11. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

- Terry Pratchett


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12. Luck has a habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.


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13. Never take help of tears to show your emotions, and never take help of words to show your anger.


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14. Opportunity favors prepared mind.


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15. Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

- Jim Morrison


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16. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

You trade in your reality for a role.

You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

- Jim Morrison


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17. Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

- Jim Morrison


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18. If you can't explain it SIMPLY, you don’t understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein


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19. Life’s too short to be somebody else.


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20. Some people see things that are and ask, Why?

Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?

Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

- George Carlin


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21. The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built?

- Eric Ries


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22. Stop focusing on dumb shit.

Don’t be afraid to break things.

Don’t be romantic.

Don’t take the time to breathe.

Don’t aim for perfect.

And whatever you do, keep moving.


Reread this a few times . . .

- Gary Vaynerchuk


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23. Bet on your strengths.

It’s an underrated business strategy in a world where so many people are obsessed with fixing their weaknesses they give short shrift to the skills they were born with.

- Gary Vaynerchuk


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24. You can’t read about Pushups. What makes you think reading inspirational quotes all day is gonna get you “there”.

- Gary Vaynerchuk


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25. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life … do that.

- Gary Vaynerchuk


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26. To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!

- Richie Norton


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27. You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi


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28. And you?

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi


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29. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…


it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi


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30. All people on the planet are children, except for a very few.

No one is grown up except those free of desire.

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi


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31. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything.

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

- Milan Kundera


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32. I heard the Tweet tone. I thought my phone received a notification.

Zero Notifications.

I stepped back.

Cautiously peeped from my curtains.


There it was, the most beautiful young bird, tweeting.

- ReadBeach


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33. A lot of times people don't know what they want, until you show it to them.

- Steve Jobs


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34. The world is full of Educated fools.


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35. High grades don’t measure intelligence.


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36. When you see a good move, look for a better one.

- Emanuel Lasker


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37. You'd never be understood, until you make it.

- David Ogunsegun


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38. Try never to be the smartest person in the room.

And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people .... or find a different room

- Michael Dell


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39. I’d rather be optimistic and wrong, than pessimistic and right.

- Elon Musk


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40. Know your worth.

Then add tax.


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41. A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.


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42. The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.


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43. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

- Steve Jobs


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44. My favorite things in life don't cost any money.

It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

- Steve Jobs


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45. Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.

- Steve Jobs


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46. You have to believe that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

- Steve Jobs


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47. If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.

- Steve Jobs


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48. Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

- Steve Jobs


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49. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

- Steve Jobs


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50. How do you defend against a person who is ready to die?

How do you defend against a person who don’t fear being sent to prison for life?

How do you defend against a person who has nothing to lose?

It’s like trying to defend against a suicide bomber, who has no problem going out in a glorified bang.


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51. I like the way I feel when I’ve got nothing to lose.

- Kris Kidd


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52. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.


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53. Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

- Barbara Delinsky


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54. We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

- Steve Jobs


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55. What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.


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56. A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be.


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57. If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.

- Hamza Yusuf


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58. One day at a time is the secret to building momentum.


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59. "There's something about an underdog that really inspires the unexceptional."

The Office TV Show: Robert California (the new boss) on choosing Andy to be the manager of The Office.


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60. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you

- Anne Lamott


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61. All things are possible. Who you are is limited by who you think you are.


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62. The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.


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63. You've survived 100% of the bad days so far. You're doing great.


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64. Sit with winners: the conversation will be different.


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65. We are all special in our own way the moment we choose to be.

- Seth Godin


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66. Don't hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

- Christopher McCandless


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67. Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don't overpower you.

- Grace Helbig


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68. You will be told your whole life that you need to learn to listen. I would say that you need to learn to be the last to speak. The skill to hold your opinions to yourself until everyone has spoken does two things: It gives everyone the feeling that they have been heard and contributed, and you get the benefit of hearing what everybody else has to think before you render your opinion.

- Simon Sinek


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69. Kindness is Free.

Sprinkle that stuff everywhere.


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70. A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her wings.


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71. Do more than exist—live.
Do more than hear—listen…
Do more than grow—bloom.
Do more than spend—invest.
Do more than think—create…
Do more than decide—discern.
Do more than consider—commit…
Do more than dream—do.
Do more than see—perceive.
Do more than read—apply.
Do more than receive—reciprocate.
Do more than choose—focus.
Do more than wish—believe…
Do more than encourage—inspire…
Do more than reach—stretch.

- John Mason


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72. Bill Gates on Mrs Caffiere:

She pulled me out of my shell by sharing her love of books. She started by asking questions like, ‘What do you like to read?’ and ‘What are you interested in?’

Then she found me a lot of books – ones that were more complex and challenging than the Tom Swift Jr. science fiction books I was reading at the time. For example, she gave me great biographies she had read.

Once I’d read them, she would make the time to discuss them with me. ‘Did you like it?’ she would ask. ‘Why? What did you learn?’ She genuinely listened to what I had to say.

- Bill Gates


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73. All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.


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74. You can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness.


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75. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you're not going to make an awful lot of work.

- Chuck Close


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76. A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

- Salvador Dali


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77. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

- Pablo Picasso


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78. Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

- Neil Gaiman


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79. You Can’t Climb Up A Mountain With Downhill Thoughts.


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80. Just when the caterpillar thought its life was over, it became a butterfly.


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