Inspirational Quotes

“… you should rather find purpose than a job or a career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.”

— Chadwick Boseman

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

— Studs Terkel

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ”

— Dolly Parton

“To do what you love and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?”

— Katharine Graham

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Unknown

“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

— Maya Angelou

“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom or criticize you, remember they’re telling you their story, not yours.”

— Cynthia Occelli

“Action breeds confidence and courage. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…. ”

— Rainer Marie Rilke

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow. ”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made.”

— John Schaar

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original.”

— Lin Manuel Miranda

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it – every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”

— John D. Rockefeller III

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

— Dale Carnegie

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

— Erma Bombeck

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— Andre Gide

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

— Alfred Adler

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”

— Arnold Edinborough

“You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Things work out best for the people who make the best out of the way things work out.”

— Art Linkletter

“What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it.”

— Lee Iacocca

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them.”

— Laurence J. Peter

And a few just for fun:

“I want answers now, or I want them eventually!”

— Homer Simpson

“I always knew I wanted to be someone. Now I know I should have been more specific.”

— Lily Tomlin

“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”

— W.C. Fields

“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”

— Jimmy Buffett