My 20 Favorite Inspirational Quotes About Life

All through life, we are inspired and motivated by various people and events – such as parents, teachers, friends, role-models, religious leaders, nature and natural events. As you launch into the year 2016 and plan for the future and embark upon various projects to achieve your life-long career dreams, I just want to motivate you with the following inspirational quotes (my 20 favorite quotes actually) from some of the world's greatest thinkers:

1. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” - Kevin Kruse

2. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

3. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” - Vince Lombardi

6. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius

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

8. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln

9. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” - Cesare Pavese

10. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Soren Kierkegaard

11. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” - Marcus Aurelius

12. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” - Florence Nightingale

13. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” - Albert Einstein

14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.” - Mark Twain

15. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Christopher Columbus

16. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain

17. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso

18. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” - Steve Jobs

19. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” - Charles Swindoll

20. “The best revenge is massive success.” - Frank Sinatra