Jiang Wu Data Engineer @ Adyen (NL)

21 inspirational quotes that never fail to inspire

In daily life, we come across many words. Some words leave a lasting impression on our mind. Here is a compilation of 21 inspirational quotes by some famous people that never fail to inspire me or anyone, for that matter.

  1. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

  2. “Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” — Mark Twain

  3. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus

  4. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” — Aristotle

  5. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

  6. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” — Benjamin Franklin

  7. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti

  8. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

  9. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey

  10. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

  11. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

  12. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford

  13. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin

  14. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

  15. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

  16. “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” — Aristotle

  17. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach

  18. “Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.” — Ernest Hemingway

  19. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” — Paulo Coelho

  20. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi

  21. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” — John Lennon