30 Inspirational Quotes for When You Need a Boost

I’m admittedly a quote junkie due to a belief in the power of words. Inspiring words can propel you forward. Whereas discouraging words have the capacity to pull you down. So, I thought that I’d share with you 30 inspirational quotes for those moments when you’re in the office and need a little pick me up (instead of the trip to Starbucks). I also created a downloadable document version for you to save to your laptop or print out. Enjoy!

1. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
2. “Saying we’re a leader doesn’t make us a leader. Leading makes us a leader.“ Simon Sinek
3. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” Malcolm Forbes
4. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills
5. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney
6. “Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work?” Sir Richard Branson
7.  “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”  John Muir
8. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”  Thomas Jefferson
10. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” Seth Godin
12. “I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don’t lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can’t understand what is without.”  Anita Moorjani
13. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”  Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall
15. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”  Gautama Buddha
16. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”  Dalai Lama XIV
17. “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”  Steve Maraboli
18. “Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”  Christine Feehan
19. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”  Rachel Carson
21. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”  Neil deGrasse Tyson
23. “Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.”  Jessica Howell
24. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”  Alan W. Watts
25. “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”  Edith Södergran
26. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”  Abraham Lincoln
27. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”  Oscar Wilde
28. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein
29. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
30. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”  May Sarton

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