Inspirational Quotes from Great World Figures

 ​There are few things more inspiring than words of wisdom from great world figures. Whether they're historical figures who have changed the course of history, or modern-day celebrities who are at the top of their field, there's something special about hearing words of advice and inspiration from the people who have made a real impact on the world.

In this blog post, we've compiled some of the most inspirational quotes from great world figures. These quotes cover a wide range of topics, from success and determination to love and compassion. We hope that reading these quotes will help you to find your own path in life and to achieve your dreams.

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein

" Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

Uplifting Quotes from Famous Historical Figures

​"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

- Ernest Hemingway

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"You can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"I think I can. I know I can."

-Muhammad Ali

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Power

Quotes from Famous Politicians

​In a world filled with turmoil and stress, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle and forget what's truly important. That's why it's important to remember the words of some of the most influential politicians throughout history. These politicians have been leaders in their fields and have helped to shape the world as we know it. Here are some quotes from famous politicians that will inspire you to be a better person and make a difference in the world.

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people." – Abraham Lincoln

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." – Margaret Thatcher

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." – Winston Churchill

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"Politics is the art of making possible what is necessary." – Helmut Schmidt

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." – Robert A. Heinlein

"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation." – James Freeman Clarke

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the sea, they are moved by the tides of your wishes." – Kahlil Gibran

"In politics, an idea isn't worth a damn unless it can be made to seem like common sense." – Thomas Edison

"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." – Mark Hanna

"A wise man once said that there are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions." – Kennedy Bunting

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." – Groucho Marx

"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." – Charles de Gaulle

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." – Paul Valery

"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are often weak." – Winston Churchill

Quotes from Legendary Scientists

​"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." -Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." -Albert Einstein

"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

"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

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." -Albert Einstein

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" -Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Quotes from great world figures"

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -Thomas Jefferson

"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." -Anonymous

"When you stand up to be counted
Tell the world this is my voice" -Shane Koyczan

Quotes from Pioneering Thinkers

​"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"There are no great men, only great challenges which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstance to meet." - Admiral William F. Halsey

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"We are faced with the formidable task of rebuilding our civilization on a new ethical foundation. We must work tirelessly to ensure that our scientific advances are used for the benefit of all humanity and not just a select few." - Aung San Suu Kyi

"If we have a chance to build something great, we should. Life is fragile and we should take our opportunities while we can." - Steve Jobs

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"I am not a failure because I have failed, I am a failure because I have given up." - Thomas Edison

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou

Motivational Quotes from World Leaders

​"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what it is you like doing and keep your mind occupied with that." - Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what it is you like doing and keep your mind occupied with that." - Steve Jobs

Quotes from World-Changing Philosophers

​"The more I study, the more I discover the essential unity of all religions." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha

"There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction." - Winston Churchill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Mohandas Gandhi

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama

Enlightening Quotes from Writers

​There are many great writers in the world, and they have a lot to say. Here are some quotes from them that may enlighten you:

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

-Thomas Mann

"I think all writers want to have a degree of control over what they're saying, but I also think there's a kind of elusiveness to good writing where you're saying something but you're also not quite saying it."

-Toni Morrison

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

-Stephen King

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."

-Mark Twain

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Maya Angelou

"The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written."

-Joyce Carol Oates

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

-Gustave Flaubert

"No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing."

-E.B. White

Quotes from Successful Business Leaders

​"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." -Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." -Steve Jobs

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." -Steve Jobs

"The best way to learn about something is to do it." -Richard Branson

"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business." -Ray Kroc

"You have to be very careful about what you say yes to because it's very easy to get spread too thin." -Richard Branson

"There is no substitute for hard work." -Thomas Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback." -Robert Kiyosaki

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -Mark Zuckerberg

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." -Steve Jobs

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next." -Steve Jobs

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time." -Steve Jobs

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." -Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." -Steve Jobs

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." -Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -Steve Jobs

Quotes from Inspiring Activists

​In a world filled with so much negativity, it's important to be reminded of the power of positivity. Here are some quotes from inspiring activists that show just how much change can be brought about through hope and determination.

"The moment we choose to love ourselves, the world around us transforms." - Marianne Williamson

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African proverb

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

"Quotes from great world figures" can be tremendously inspiring. But it's important to remember that each and every one of us has the power to make a difference. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

Beloved Quotes from Visionaries

​"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."

- Jack Black

"A child is a blank canvas. The first ten years are the most important because they are when they are the most malleable."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one."

- Sue Atkins

"The best thing you can do for your children is to love your spouse."

- David Boreanaz

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

- Jesse Jackson

"Children see magic because they look for it."

- Christopher John Farley

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

- Walt Streightiff

"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your children to do it."

- Monta Crane

"There is no such thing as a spoiled child, only spoiled parents."

- Joel D. Wallach, DVM, ND

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

- W. E. Duke

"If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else."

- Ann Landers

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

- Abigail Van Buren

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."

- Phyllis Diller

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

- Michael Levine

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

- Harold Hulbert

"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."

- Joshua Harris

"Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful."

- Rashida Jones

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."

- Sophia Loren

"Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself."

- Kesha

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

- Maya Angelou

"The older I get, the more I realize that my mother is the best friend that I ever had."

- Emma Stunick

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

- Mark Twain

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Washington Irving

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

- George Washington

Quotes from great world figures about mothers:

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The mother's heart is the child's classroom."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the child or me?"

- Anne Lamott

"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood." Former first lady Laura Bush said this in a speech celebrating Mother's Day in 2008.