Inspirational Quotes to Kick Start Your Day

Hoping to bring some inspiration to your day here are some quotes to start your day off! Please feel free to share your favorites too 

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

Having fun

Great thread lips!

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

I love Mark Twain Here's one of my favourites:

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."  - Mark Twain

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh 

I'm so glad I found some Mark Twain fans here!
Here's my favorite quote about smoking:

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

"seize the day"

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” - Marilyn Monroe

"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell." - Bill Copeland (American poet, writer and historian)

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”

― Timothy Leary

Damn dr that took my breath away....powerful stuff! They are all great and definitely food for thought!

“Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.” - Beyonce

“Remember:
Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken)
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that makes you smile.
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom)
Don't sweat the small stuff,
You are who you are meant to be,
Dance as if no one's watching,
Love as if it's all you know,
Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today”


― James Dean

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” ― Steve Martin

Simply, but I like Froggy.

" thank god for aspirin" - me this morning

Live, laugh, love.

Short and simple.

American writer Paul Auster "Man in the Dark" - "I fail again and again, fail more often than I succeed, but that doesn't mean I don't give it my best effort."

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone  -- Ronald Reagan

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

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

" A bank is a place that will lend you money if you prove you don't need it!"-Bob Hope

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past.-Oscar Wilde

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) 

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." Haruki Murakami

This is a quote from a movie called "The Kite Runner", you should watch it if you get the chance:

"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."

"Consciousness begins with disobedience"

“If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” - Johnny Depp

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"? - Dorothy Parker

The stories of past courage…can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. Profile in Courage 1956

I love tennis so here's one from the world of tennis.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe

Nice quote, st8 to the point!

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”

Dhirubhai Ambani

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance it the rain.
Not sure who said it, but I like it

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill (btw, I really love his quotes

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope” - Hal Lindsey

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse-Tung

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed

Just the quote I needed!

It is nice to jump start the day with a nice quote!

"Don't worry about temptation--as you grow older, it starts avoiding you."

“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

I love the John Lenon quote, although I really doubt that a 5y can say something like that. Great one anyway!

:D


“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

Hunter S. Thompson

The last one is almost as a quote from Grand Theft Auto