Everyone needs inspiration now and then… The written word supplies people with quotes to remember and live by.

One may keep a special journal of quotes, post them on a bulletin board or computer desktop or simply recite them by memory. The following are a number of quotes that are meant to inspire:

Success

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
-Dale Carnegie

“Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
-Helen Keller

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — and then success is sure.”
-Mark Twain

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.”
-Henrik Ibsen

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.”
-Edward B. Butler

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.”
-Booker T. Washington

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
-Dale Carnegie

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taking Chances

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
-Emily Dickinson

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway… And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
-Anne Frank

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
-Bill Cosby

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is what he believes.”
-Anton Chekhov

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
-Margaret Thatcher

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
-Helen Keller

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
-Dale Carnegie

Happiness
“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

“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
-Aristotle

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.”
-Robert F. Kennedy

“The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”
-Henry W. Longfellow

Dreaming

“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
-W.B. Yeats

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-Harriet Tubman

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
-Henry David Thoreau

Hope

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.”
- Louisa May Alcott

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. “
-Albert Einstein

“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
-Martin Luther King, jr.

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
-Emily Dickenson

Faith

“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
-Helen Keller

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”
-C.S. Lewis

Remember these words during hard times and take heart. Some day you may inspire others with your own insights…

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Jen received her master's degree in Literacy Education in 2003 and since then has worked on helping to grow awareness about children's literacy and writing. Jen has 16 post(s) at Free Writing Center