Books are a window into the thousands lives you never got to live. These are some motivational quotes from books which you can get inspired by.
1. He understood with vivid clarity that the best ideas came from a place with a sign on the door saying I don’t know – Museum of Modern Love, Heather Rose
2. So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible. – The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
3. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
4. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
5. It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. – Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfield
6. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise – Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
7. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – I Can Read with My Eyes Shut, Dr. Suess
8. We all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. – Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
9. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
10. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt – The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt
11. I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. – The Wave, Virginia Woolf
12. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
13. The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. – How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie
14. Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. – Persuasion, Jane Austen
15. She decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong, and she would be weak, and both would be okay. – Furthermore, Tahereh Mafi
16. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. – Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi
17. Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you. – Up Thoughts For Down Times, Les Brown
18. There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. – A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. – P.S. I Love You, H.Jackson Brown Jr.
20. Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death. – Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
21. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. – Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
22. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.- An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
23. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
24. All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom
25. It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then. – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
26. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it – Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
27. The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. – The Power of Six, Pittacus Lore
28. If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives. – The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
29. And when they played they really PLAYED. And when they worked they really WORKED. – The King’s Stilts, Dr. Suess
30. Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. – Divergent, Veronica Roth
31. When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile. – Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
32. You can’t control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act – The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins
33. Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is letting God talk to you. – I’ve Been Thinking . . ., Maria Shriver
34. If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something. – Make Good Art, Neil Gaiman
35. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. – Brida, Paulo Coelho
36. Once you learn to make sacrifices, you will be successful. – Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy
37. If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. – The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
38. To define is to limit. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
39. Melancholy was the sounds on a winter’s night. – Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
40. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -No Man Is an Island, Thomas Merton
41. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. – Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
42. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. – Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
43. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde
44. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
45. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. – The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
46. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. – No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
47. We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
48. Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. – Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks
49. Fear no more, says the heart… – Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
50. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
51. It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. – Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
52. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – The Minpins by Roald Dahl
53. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
54. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs – Live Your Dreams, Les Brown
55. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. – The Art of War, Sun Tzu
56. Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. – The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
57. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
58. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.- Mansfield Par, Jane Austen
59. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
60. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. – The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
61. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
62. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive – Looking for Alaska, John Green
63. There are years that ask questions and years that answer – Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
64. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart – Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
65. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
66. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm – The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
67. Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot – Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
68. Time is the longest distance between two places – The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
69. Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy. – Orlando, Virginia Woolf
70. Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared – The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
71. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. – The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
72. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
73. Time moves slowly, but passes quickly – The Color Purple, Alice Walker
74. All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope -The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
75. The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything – City of the Beasts, Isabel Allende
76. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
77. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
78. It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. – The Secret History, Donna Tartt
79. There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. – The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
80. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
81. Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair – The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas
82. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
83. There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. – A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
84. It’s high time you were shown That you really don’t know. All there is to be known – On Beyond Zebra, Dr. Suess
85. Rise above what’s holding you back. – Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy
86. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves – Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E Frankl
87. All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. – Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
88. A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for – Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
89. A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Essays of Three Decades, Thomas Mann
90. I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
91. Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. – Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Flannery O’Connor
92. A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. – The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
93. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom, Miguel Ruiz
94. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
95. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
96. Every human life is worth the same and worth saving. – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
97. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy. – St. George and the Godfather, Norman Mailer
98. Knowledge is love and light and vision. – The Story of My Life, Hellen Keller
99. You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. – The Power of Purpose, Les Brown
100. It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it – Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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