60 Quotes of the Day for Inspirational Thoughts

Each day has a different potential for growth, connection, and a different purpose. These thought-of-the-day quotes are considered pearls of wisdom from the minds of influential leaders, creatives, and philosophers to offer daily inspiration to illuminate their path. Check below the list of 50 inspirational thought of the day quotes that will provide a spark to ignite your potential and guide you toward a meaningful life.

1. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
   – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
   – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
   – Nelson Mandela
4. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
   – Marcel Proust
5. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
   – Helen Keller
6. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
   – Zig Ziglar
7. 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, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
   – Mark Twain
8. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
   – Jimmy Johnson
9. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
   – Steve Jobs

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

11. The mind is everything. What do you think you will become.
– Buddha
12. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
– Aristotle
13. Doubt is a killer. You just have to keep moving.
– Sheryl Sandberg
14. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
15. The best revenge is massive success.
– Frank Sinatra
16. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
– Elbert Hubbard
17. No one has ever achieved greatness without a touch of madness.
Aristotle
18. The only true wealth is time.
– The Arabian Nights
19. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tzu

21.The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
– Albert Einstein
22. The key to success is to focus on goals, not problems.
–  Henry Ford
23.The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
– William Butler Yeats
24. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
25. Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
26. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
– C.S. Lewis
28.The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
29. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently

Henry Ford

Thought of the Day: 20 Positive Thoughts for Today

31. The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
– W.B. Yeats
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
– Henry Ford
32. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
– Charles R. Swindoll
33. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
– John D. Rockefeller
34. The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
– Albert Einstein
35. A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
– Jackie Robinson
36. The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
–  Stephen Richards Covey
37. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
–  Chinese Proverb
38. A single act of kindness throws out roots in a person’s soul that grow into the greatest beauty.
– Louisa May Alcott
39. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

40. There are two ways to get enough. One is to continually acquire more. The other is to desire less.
    –  Gyatri Patel
41. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    – George Eliot
42. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
    – Lao Tzu
43. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
    – Joshua J. Marine
44. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
    – Nelson Mandela
46. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
    – Steve Jobs
47. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
    – Steve Jobs
48. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
    – Helen Keller
49. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
    – Zig Ziglar

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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51. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
-Stephen Covey
52. You can have results or excuses. Not both.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
53. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
54. I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
-Abraham Lincoln
55. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.
-Aristotle
56. Think of many things, do one.
–Portuguese proverb
57. If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
–Anita Roddick
58. If you have time to whine, then you have time to find a solution.
– Dee Dee Artner
59. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
– Henry Ford
60. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
– Elon Musk

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