+100 Truly Inspiring Quotes from Historical Figures
Over 100 quotes that can truly inspire your life from historical figures.
Most Inspirational Quotes in History
1. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most” – Gautama Buddha
2. “The longest journey begins with a single step.” – Patanjali
3. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
4. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”- Albert Einstein
5. “Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny.” – Sivananda Saraswati
6. “Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow” – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
7. “A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.” – Lao Tzu
8. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” – Ramana Maharishi
10. “Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we.” – Swami Sivananda
11. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ― Osho
12. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”–Mahatma Gandhi
13. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
14. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
16. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
17. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
18. “Be — don't try to become”― Osho
19. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent
20. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb
21. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
22. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
23. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
24. Memory is deceptive because it is colored by todays events” – Albert Einstein
25. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
26. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu
27. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
28. “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” – Isaac Newton
29. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
30. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”– Leonardo Da Vinci
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31. “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” – Galileo
32. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo
33. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
34. “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle
35. “Quality is not an act; it is a habit.” – Aristotle
36. “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena; it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla
37. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla
38. “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” – Nikola Tesla
39. “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.” – Nikola Tesla
40. “So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet…” – Nikola Tesla
41. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ” ― Archimedes
42. “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
43. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates
44. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates
45. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – Shakespeare
46. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
47. “Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo
48. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way” – Napoleon Hill
49. “Silence is better than unmeaning words.” – Pythagoras
50. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” – Pythagoras
51. “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” – Johannes Kepler
52. “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” – Johannes Kepler
53. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Beethoven
54. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Darwin
55. “A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Darwin
56. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
57. “Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.” – Stephen Hawking
58. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ― Benjamin Franklin
59. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
60. “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck
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61. “Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.” – Homerus
62. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Nicolaus Copernicus
63. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
64. “There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
65. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
66. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
67. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
68. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi
69. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde
70. “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
71. “You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
72. “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” - Rabindranath Tagore
73. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” - Rabindranath Tagore
74. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
75. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
76. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
77. “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
78. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great
79. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
80. “Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.).” – Julius Caesar
81. “An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.” ― Genghis Khan
82. “The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” ― Osho
83. "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte
84. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
85. "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." - Malcolm X
86. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo
87. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
88. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."- Mahatma Gandhi
89. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
90. "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." - Charlie Chaplin
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91. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung
92. “The trouble is, you think you have time” – Buddha
93. “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” — Abraham Lincoln
94. “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
95. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
96. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
97. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
98. “To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.” – Dalai Lama
99. “Twenty years from now you will 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
100. “Love is the absence of judgment.” – Dalai Lama
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Gautama Singh – Writer for The Yogi Press
Gautama Singh is part of The Yogi Press team. He is a lover of Jazz music and thrillers. His favourite pastimes are surfing, meditation and eating vegan dim sum.