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Top inspirational quotes to spark all the right emotions.
Multimedia projects are made to invoke something. A poster can instruct or excite. A card sends a message. Even wallpaper on a desktop can motivate.
Choosing the right inspirational quote can make your message soar right out of the park. Browse the full collection of inspirational quotes organized by target message, and take your pick of the best.
Inspirational quotes about life.
Inspirational quotes about life have the power to draw people out of the fog and evoke moments of joy, wonder, and excitement. These quotes are often used in posters and wallpapers as powerful reminders of the cards we’re dealt in life — and how to best play the game.
Inspirational quotes about life are some of the most powerful quotes out there. Take your pick of the quote with the right message, and wherever you use it, it will inspire a healthy dose of “ah-ha” and the satisfaction of a renewed outlook.
It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.”
Charles Dickens
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
James Russell Lowell
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
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Short inspirational quotes.
Sometimes, the inspirational quote you seek must be short. Maybe you’re playing with inspirational quotes in a card, or you can only fit a few characters onto a product package. Maybe you know that your audience’s attention is short, and you want to get to the point in an instant.
Whatever the reason, short inspirational quotes are a favorite go-to for quick impact. Take your pick of these short inspirational quotes that compel your audience with instant life insights.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope is a waking dream.”
Aristotle
Hope is the last thing ever lost.”
Italian proverb
In a time of destruction, create something.”
Maxine Hong Kingston
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.”
Emanuel Cleaver
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sun is new each day.”
Heraclitus
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin
Know thyself.”
Delphic Maxim
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Desmond Tutu
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Inspirational morning quotes.
Some of the best inspirational quotes are perfect to get us motivated in the mornings. (Some of these are especially on-point for Monday mornings.) These inspirational quotes remind us why we get up every day. They also set us up to put our best foot forward.
What inspirational morning quote does your audience need to feel motivated? Some of these quotes are the best out there for team inspirational posters. Take your pick of these inspirational quotes and the dawn will shine even brighter for it.
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
Shel Silverstein
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
Bernard Williams
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
Robert H. Schuller
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
Benjamin Franklin
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
Rumi
Hope is the thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”
Barack Obama
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately
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Inspirational quotes for women.
There are certain inspirational quotes that speak to women and their shared experiences in the face of inequality.
These inspirational quotes for women are also by women. Each is a nod to both historic and ongoing challenges. Through the lens of unequal rights, double social standards, and disparate pay, these hand-picked inspirational quotes for women each sends a powerful message.
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.”
Susan Griffin
The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Amanda Gorman
We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
Sarah J. Maas
Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.”
Catherine Pulsifer
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have, because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.”
Michelle Obama
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
Barbara Kingsolver
The best protection any woman can have is courage.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”
Louise Otto
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Inspirational quotes for work.
Everyone needs some inspirational quotes for work at some point. These quotes inspire motivation to get things done, act creatively, and work well together in a team.
Take your pick of these inspirational quotes for work and you could help a lot of people get through tough days. A wallpaper with one of these quotes can keep delivering the message all day long.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Victor Hugo
In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.”
Fritz Knapp
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner
A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.”
Jan Dargatz
Fear never builds the future, but hope does.”
Joe Biden
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
Samuel Smiles
You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
Woodrow Wilson
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Hope is the thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”
Barack Obama
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Funny inspirational quotes.
There are times when an inspirational quote really has to be funny. Maybe you need a funny quote to break the ice or to get people’s attention. The great thing about funny inspirational quotes is that they make you laugh first, and then their meaning sinks in more memorably. This gives them a more lasting impact.
These quotes are especially handy to use on posters and cards. Take your pick of these funny inspirational quotes to tweak the tone of a project to something lighthearted, fun-loving, and downright enjoyable.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.”
Nanea Hoffman
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.”
Bo Bennett
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”
Charles M. Schulz
Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
Nanea Hoffman
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”
Oscar Wilde
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Cute inspirational quotes.
Cute inspirational quotes warm the heart as much as they open the mind. These hand-picked quotes make clever plays on word; they make you smile; and they’re appropriate for all audiences.
Take your pick of these cute inspirational quotes to drive a message home with a smile. Imagine using one of these in a card, and you can bet it’s one the receiver will keep.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
Jonas Salk
Remember: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Stephen King
Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith.”
Toba Beta
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.”
Howard Thurman
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
Gustave Flaubert
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
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Spiritual inspirational quotes.
There are moments when inspirational quotes need to touch more than our minds. When it’s the soul that hurts, spiritual inspirational quotes act as a balm. These inspirational quotes are perfect for cards that are sent during hard times.
Take your pick of these spiritual inspiration quotes and the impression you leave will be one of peace.
The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love, and hope.”
Wilfred Peterson
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
Laini Taylor
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
Nelson Mandela
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
Stephen Ambrose
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
Swami Vivekananda
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
This above all: to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare
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Adobe Express can help.
Adobe Express online editor has tons of free templates and quick and easy customization options to put your favorite inspirational quotes to work. If you want to play with inspirational quotes in cards, posters, wallpaper, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.
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