Inspirational Quotes

Below are some of my favorite inspirational quotes about life, spirituality and online business. Please enjoy them, and if you have one to add, please submit it to me via my contact page.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Aside from the Source who creates and breathes life into all of us, nothing serves humankind more than the creative genius potential and those willing to demonstrate the courage and determination necessary to access and actualize it. — Gerald Lodovico, The Genius Code

Before the Web came along, there were only three ways to get noticed: buy expensive advertising, beg the mainstream media to tell your story for you, or hire a huge sales staff to bug people one at a time about your products. Now we have a better option: publishing interesting content on the Web that your buyers want to consume. — David Meerman Scott

Ever be on the look-out for an opportunity to serve; never miss a chance. You must be like a watch-dog, alert and keen to grasp at once any possibility that presents itself of being useful… you must create opportunities to do something for others. Do not wait for a chance but create means of making yourself useful and helpful. Do it in whatever way you are particularly suited by temperament, talent and natural disposition. — Sivananda

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think. — Martin Seligman

I believe there has never been a better time to start a business than the present. Large companies’ advantages in mass scale are falling away as people become more interested in niche products and meaningful brands – and marketing is as simple as telling your story on a blog, tweet, or Facebook page. The future of business might look like millions of passionate owners connecting with a handful of customers by adding value through products, services, and marketing. — Bob Gilbreath, Marketing With Meaning

I never went for the money. I just said, God use me. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself. — Oprah Winfrey

I only write when I am inspired, so I see to it that I am inspired every morning at 9 AM. — Peter DeVries

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. — Abraham Maslow

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There is no way around these two things that I am aware of, no shortcut. — Stephen King

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible. — T. Harv Ecker

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

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 win­ning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. — Benjamin Disraeli

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anais Nin

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Marianne Williamson

The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ‘em! — Stuart Wilde

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer

We are going through a gold-rush of branding. In the old days to become a brand, you needed a lot of mainstream media attention. But now, if you get talked about enough in all the social webs; blogs, you can get there. You can build your brand; your companys brand. But it all starts with that first moment when you look in the mirror … first moment. What do I want to do? — Gary Vaynerchuk

We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich-the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. — Woodrow T. Wilson

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. — Jim Rohn

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. — Shakti Gawain

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. — Patanjali

You don‘t try to build a wall. You don‘t set out to build a wall. You don‘t say ‘I‘m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that‘s ever been built.‘ You don‘t start there. You say I‘m gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. — Will Smith