Inspirational words from inspirational people

Take it from these famous people and their inspirational words to lift your mood, curated by the Vibant review team.

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

"When you cease to dream you cease to live." -- Malcolm Forbes

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -- David Brinkley

"May you live every day of your life." -- Jonathan Swift

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

"Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." -- Oprah Winfrey

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." -- Henry Ford

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve." -- Jeff Bezos

"If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -- Coco Chanel

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." -- Oscar Wilde

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

"To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials."--Richard Branson

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan

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

"You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you." -- Katie Couric

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." -Ray Goforth

“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."-Neil Armstrong

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." -- Arthur Ashe

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."-Mary Kay Ash

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