60 Timeless Inspirational Quotes

To call something “timeless” implies that it’s reach and impact has nothing to do with the passing of time. Below is a list of inspiration quotes from some of history’s most brilliant minds that, in my opinion, fit the definition of being timeless.

1) Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
-Napoleon Hill

2) Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

3) Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-Francis of Assisi

4) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Henry S. Haskins

5) The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
-Lao Tzu

6) My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
– Pablo Picasso.

7) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

8) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot

9) Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
-Albert Einstein

10) Dream big and dare to fail.
-Norman Vaughan

11) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

12) I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
-Jimmy Dean

13) All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

14) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost

15) What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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16) Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
-Cher

17) Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
-Vince Lombardi

18) The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-Alan Kay

19) I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale

20) You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Gandhi

21) Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re probably right.
-Henry Ford

22) Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
-Audrey Hepburn

23) Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
-Charles R. Swindoll
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24) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
-Wayne Gretzky

25) Tough times never last, but tough people do.
-Dr. Robert Schuller

26) Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison

27) Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
-Rosa Parks

28) If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
-Napoleon Hill

29) 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

30) Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
-Helen Keller

31) Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain

32) Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
-Maya Angelou

33) If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle

34) Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
-W. Clement Stone

35) There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley

36) When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.
-Chris Colfer

37) Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
-Swami Sivananda

38) An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
-William Prescott

39) Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

40) The best way out is always through.
-Robert Frost

41) I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
-George Bernard Shaw

42) We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-William Shakespeare

43) Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
-Truman Capote

44) 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
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45) The power of imagination makes us infinite.
-John Muir

46) There are seven things that will destroy us:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without character;
Religion without sacrifice;
Politics without principle;
Science without humanity;
Business without ethics.
– Gandhi

47) You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.
-Winston Churchill

48) Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
-Charles Swindoll

49) Make each day your masterpiece.
-John Wooden

50) In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
-Warren Buffett

51) There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
-Denis Waitley

52) The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
-Alice Walker

53) The best dreams happen when you’re awake.
-Cherie Gilderbloom

54) 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

55) Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

56) The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-Buddha
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57) Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
-Christopher Reeve

58) The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
-Keanu Reeves

59) A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.
-Lao Tzu

60) An unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates

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