Top 100 Not Inspirational Quotes
#1. Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
Elizabeth Olsen
#2. I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
Rosie O'Donnell
#3. People often ask if I think my life is dangerous, if I am afraid. I am much more afraid of remaining comfortable. Matthew 10:28 tells us not to fear things that can destroy the body but things that can destroy the soul.
Katie J. Davis
#4. You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#5. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.
Shane Salerno
#6. We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.
Rick Yancey
#7. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.
Steve Maraboli
#9. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#10. Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.
David Letterman
#11. Our job is not to find the peace or create peace, but to find and eliminate all the obstacles on the way to the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#12. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
#13. If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.
Cinda Williams Chima
#14. Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.
Itzhak Perlman
#15. Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#16. It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
Alison Croggon
#17. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
Neil Gaiman
#18. Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.
Debasish Mridha
#19. The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#20. You are born to be magical, gorgeous and beautiful inside and out. So express your beauty and fear not.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Its never what others think of you that determines whether or not you succeed. Its all about what you think of yourself. All the work in the world cannot overcome self-doubt.
A.M. Sawyer
#22. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.
Patti J. Smith
#23. Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette
Marie Clair
#24. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.
Chip Rossetti
#25. When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
Jack Kornfield
#26. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!
Jennifer O'Neill
#27. If we do not find Anything very pleasent,At least we stall find Something New.
Semanyenzi Richard
#28. Jesus is teaching and wants you to learn. This means you will be stretched. Jesus does not want you stuck in a bonehead English class, which I was for several years.
Jonah Books
#29. The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
Esther Hicks
#30. The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.
Chris Messner
#32. You see beauty, not with your eyes, with your beloved heart.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#34. God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.
Joel Osteen
#35. We came to this world to enjoy the magic of love, the beauty of existence, and the joy of life. We did not come to this world to look for money and fame.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#37. To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.
J. Scott Featherstone
#38. You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
Bob Proctor
#39. LOVE IS NOT MADE UP OF OPITION
LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LOVED BACK
DON'T LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BENEFIT OR ACHIVE SOMETHING
Ralph Ramovha
#40. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.
Donna Guillemette
#41. You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.
Michelle Lovric
#42. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#43. We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.
Brian Andreas
#44. It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?
Leo Tolstoy
#45. Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
Louise Erdrich
#46. Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.
Gary Hopkins
#47. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon Salzberg
#48. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
Charles De Lint
#49. Think of giving not as a privilege of having abundance in life, but as a purpose and gratitude of life.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#51. The love we deserve is not necessarily the love we accept...
Steven Aitchison
#52. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.
Zainab T. Khan
#53. We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.
Silouan The Athonite
#54. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Sometimes when our faith is too weak to trust God, He puts us in a place where our weakness forces us to surrender. Not to trust, but to surrender. Surrender then lays the groundwork for trust, because God always shows Himself faithful.
Wayne Stiles
#56. I have to be better about living in the not knowing.
Steven Rowley
#57. We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#59. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Life is beautiful,though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so,but life is certainly beautiful
Wogu Donald
#61. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.
Audre Lorde
#62. As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing.
Colleen Hoover
#63. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Sanaya Roman
#64. Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.
Sri Chinmoy
#66. Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. Entrusting your dreams or aspirations to the wrong person could be a critical mistake, lest they mistreat or neglect them. We are not nearly as careful with our dreams as we should be.
Ramani Durvasula
#70. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
#71. Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
Ian Baucom
#72. Empowerment is for all children, girls and boys ... Let us not forget that
Timothy Pina
#73. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#74. You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
John Edward Williams
#75. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar
#76. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.
George Eliot
#77. We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
#78. As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#80. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#81. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.
Demi Lovato
#82. Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Rob Martin
#83. Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if it's just for five minutes.
Scott Westerfeld
#84. The universe will not judge you for your actions. The universe will let you get judged by your actions.
Debasish Mridha
#85. [ ... ] there exists something beyond what we have in front of us. Something equally real, but that a camera cannot perceive. So I have to learn that sometimes it is necessary to give oneself up to the mystery. And accept that it is not granted to us to understand everything.
Donato Carrisi
#87. The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him
Agona Apell
#88. When you realize you are not a limited, fixed self, that fixed I you always relate to, you realize you are constantly changing-limitless with limitless ability
Brian E. Miller
#89. Did you know that the center of a Protostar (the star in the middle of a nebula) is called a Nuclear Furnace? So you can call that the star's "heart." The heart of a star is a furnace. Not much unlike the human heart.
C. JoyBell C.
#90. We write because we have to, not because we want to
Steve Berry
#91. Sorry China ... the Earth revolves around the sun ... not you. FREE TIBET TODAY!
Timothy Pina
#92. Wealth does not always depends on possession, but often depends on perception.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Our conduct determines our fate, not our birth
Rohit Omar
#94. We might not get to choose who we're born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.
Reilyn J. Hardy
#95. These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul.
Eleesha
#96. We celebrate the Birthday of the Body. But, in reality, "We" are not the Body. We are the Soul, the Atman. Therefore, Celebrate every day, as We are Immortal.
R.v.m.
#97. Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human.
Roy T. Bennett
#98. I'm not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I'm just here to love.
Katie J. Davis
#99. Living coherently doesn't mean everything is in perfect order all the time. It means you are living in alignment with your values and have not sacrificed your integrity along the way.
Bill Burnett
#100. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
