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Great quotes can be inspirational and motivational. You can use quotes to help guide your decisions in life, work and love. Here are 50 of the best inspirational quotes to motivate you:

  1. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! -- Audrey Hepburn
  2. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -- Maya Angelou
  3. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -- Henry Ford
  4. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
  5. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. -- Charles Swindoll
  6. 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
  7. None of us is as smart as all of us. -- Ken Blanchard
  8. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -- Jimmy Dean
  9. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  10. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  11. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -- Les Brown
  12. Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much. -- Helen Keller
  13. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -- Napoleon Hill
  14. 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
  15. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
  16. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. -- Albert Einstein
  17. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -- Stephen Covey
  18. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. --Henry Ford
  19. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -- Alice Walker
  20. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -- Amelia Earhart
  21. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. -- Andrew Carnegie
  22. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  23. The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. -- Zig Ziglar
  24. Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  25. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
  26. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James
  27. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. -- Farrah Gray
  28. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. -- Dalai Lama
  29. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -- Maya Angelou
  30. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -- Rosa Parks
  31. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. -- Vincent van Gogh
  32. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -- Unknown
  33. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
  34. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. -- Bob Dylan
  35. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  36. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. -- Booker T. Washington
  37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. -- Erma Bombeck
  38. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. -- Will Rogers
  39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. -- Ancient Indian Proverb
  40. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” -- Sydney Harris
  41. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. -- Confucius
  42. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  43. 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
  44. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  45. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -- Ronald Reagan
  46. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair
  47. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. —Plato
  48. Nothing will work unless you do. —Maya Angelou
  49. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. —Mother Teresa
  50. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. —Plutarch

A version of this article first appeared at TalentSmart.com.

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Inspiration is subjective, as different people will find different things to be inspiring. However, Christians can unite around one inspirational source—God himself. God is the basis for all of our inspiration because He is the basis for everything good and everything worth imitating.

Here, are our favorite Christian inspirational quotes from a variety of influential Christians that inspire us and point us back to Christ. Enjoy these many different thoughts on the Christian life and read them throughout the day for encouragement and inspiration in your faith walk.

40 Christian Inspirational Quotes

1. 'Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper

2. 'God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

3. 'God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile' - Max Lucado

4. 'God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.' - Hudson Taylor

5. 'God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.' - Tony Evans

6. 'Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie ten Boom

7. 'Christ literally walked in our shoes.' - Tim Keller

8. 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.' - Jim Elliot

9. 'Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.' - Lysa Terkeurst

10. 'If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.' - Martin Luther King Jr.

11. 'Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.' - Francis Chan

12. 'If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!' - D.L. Moody

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13. 'You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.' - John MacArthur

14. 'We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot.' - Eleanor Roosevelt

15. 'He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain.' - Randy Alcorn

16. 'God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

17. 'The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

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18. 'Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one' - A.W.Tozer

19. 'If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.' - Elisabeth Elliot

20. “There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God.' - Alistair Begg

21. 'Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.' –C. S. Lewis

22. 'This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet.' - Beth Moore

23. 'The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.' - Abraham Lincoln

24. 'Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life.' - Charles Stanley

25. 'The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.' - Helen Keller

26. 'We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.' - Chuck Swindoll

27. 'Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.' - Mother Teresa

28. 'The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.' - Matt Chandler

29. 'Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.' - Winston Churchill

30. 'God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” - John Piper

31. 'Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.' - Elisabeth Elliot

32. 'God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.' - Tony Evans

33. 'Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.' - Corrie Ten Boom

34. 'The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.' -Billy Graham

35. 'The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.'- Matt Chandler

36. 'God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.' - Christine Caine

37. 'What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.'- Rick Warren

38. 'Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.' -Oswald Chambers

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39. 'We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose.' - Priscilla Shirer

40. 'There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord.' - Franklin Graham

Plus 10 Christian Inspirational Quotes from the Bible:

  • 'The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.' - Zephaniah 3:17
  • 'Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.' - Isaiah 40:28-31
  • 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.' - John 15:13
  • 'For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.' - Romans 8:38-39
  • 'Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.' - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
  • 'What, then, shall we say in response? If God is for us, who can be against us?' - Romans 8:31
  • 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.' - Deuteronomy 31:6
  • 'So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.' - Isaiah 41:10
  • 'I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.' - Philippians 4:13
  • 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.' Matthew 11:28



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