+100 Truly Inspiring Quotes from Historical Figures
Over 100 quotes that can truly inspire your life from historical figures.
1. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most” – Gautama Buddha
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
9. “Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” – Ramana Maharishi
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
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
20. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb
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
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
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
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
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
50. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” – Pythagoras
52. “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” – Johannes Kepler
54. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Darwin
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
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
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
76. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
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
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
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
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
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.