Some days we wake up with all the confidence in the world. And some days we wake up with all of its fears. On the good days, we make miracles, we move mountains, and we recreate the universe. And on the hard ones, we just go through the moves. 

We all try so hard to keep our upbeat state, but despite our best efforts, it proves to be fleeting. The elusive inspiration comes and goes like the tides or the seasons. And we wonder, is there a way to keep it? 

Inspirational quotes are among the most powerful means to recreate that hopefulness, determination, and innovation. Here are 60 timeless quotes to keep you inspired.

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The definition of inspiration takes many forms, but this is probably the one that explains it best:  

“Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something. Especially a  creative endeavor”

This is in strong agreement with what we feel when we say that we’re inspired. It’s the extra sparkle in our eyes, spring in our steps, and fire in our bellies. To be inspired is to have a need to fix, or create, or innovate. 

Inspiration is thus a prerequisite to success, meaningful change, and happiness. Additionally, inspiration is a synergic state. Inspired people inspire others. The upbeat, positive, and determined vibe of the creative folks soon fills the hearts of those around them. 

What Exactly Is Inspiration? 

According to Harvard Business Review; “Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility, and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities.”. 

For years, people generally assumed that inspiration is a lofty or divine gift that can’t be controlled or even predicted. However, recent studies showed otherwise. Inspiration can be invited and visualized.

Why Do We Need to Get Inspired? 

Here are some practical tips to keep yourself inspired by everything around you. 

Read as much as you can. The process of reading opens up the mind to all sorts of ideas and mental challenges.

Listen to different kinds of music. Sometimes a word in a song stirs up the right emotion, and other times it’s a tune. 

Take long leisurely walks. It doesn’t matter whether it’s inside the serene woods or within the hustle and bustle of the city. Walking activates the brain and grounds the flared-up nerves. 

Travel whenever you can. New places are known for getting the creative juices flowing. 

Talk to people. Listen to your friends, your neighbors, coworkers, and to the barista who makes your coffee. You can even take an extra step and talk to strangers. 

Change your daily routine. You don’t need to do a radical overhaul, keep it small and simple.

Pamper your senses. Buy a new perfume, try new food, get yourself a lush new rug, and fill your house with flowers. 

Go to a live concert, or even stand for a few minutes to appreciate a street performer.  

Visit a museum or an art gallery. This is often a great way to find instant inspiration. 

Finally, check out inspirational quotes! These words are powerful reminders of the heights we can reach, and why we’d want to do that.  

How to Stay Inspired? 

Here are some of the best quotes that inspire creativity, goodness, hope, and determination. Seize the day, and unleash your unrelenting will to do more, be better, and go farther.  

Inspirational Quotes for More Creativity 

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love as you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like its heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” ― Pablo Picasso

“Creativity takes courage. ” ― Henri Matisse

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ― Osho

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quotes for More Positivity 

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” ― Audrey Hepburn

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ― Agatha Christie

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.” ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ― Scott Adams

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.” ― Thomas Keller

Inspirational Quotes for More Determination 

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” ― Coco Chanel

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” ― Edith Södergran

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” ― Sophia Loren

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot

“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

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“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

“Beautiful and courageous flowers don’t grow overnight... They start as a seed in the ground. Within the depths of a dark place they burrow deep and with water and sunlight they arise to break through the soil and slowly grow into what they wish to become.” ― Leona Keyoko Pink

“If you're reading this … Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars” ― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” ― Walt Disney

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett 

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