Last updated on February 26, 2024

Inspirational words

It’s the new year and I was feeling a bit introspective since the calendar turned over.

Like all creatives, I’m always looking for some inspirational words to keep my creative fires stoked. I take no credit for any of these quips, but appreciate the sentiments expressed.

Good inspirational words during any time of the year.

Inspirational words to light our creative fire in 2015

• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein
• “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” ~ Babe Ruth
• “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” ~ Colin Powell
• “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.” ~ Walt Disney
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
• “You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller
• “Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.” ~ Bill Copeland
• “Each day provides its own gifts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams

• “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald
• “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Eliot
• “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” ~ Woody Allen
• “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” ~ Vince Lombardi
• “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
• “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” ~ Vince Lombardi
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
• “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~ Francis of Assisi
• “We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~ Helen Hayes
• “You change your life by changing your heart.” ~ Max Lucado
• “Belief creates the actual fact.” ~ William James
• “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
• “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ~ T.S. Eliot
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
• “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” ~ Charles Dickens
• “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” ~ Khalil Gibran
• “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘It will be happier’…” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” ~ Voltaire
• “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” ~ C.W. Lewis
• “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” ~ Joseph Campbell