Insperational Quotes

“For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind.

But finally, finally, I have learned to break free.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“We don't get to choose our parents, and parents don't get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we're willing to work in order to make the best of what we're given.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”
― Mary Downing Hahn, Wait Till Helen Comes

“Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing”
― Ricky Maye, An Emerging Spirituality

“Something’s only impossible because it hasn’t been done yet.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“Why do you hold back? Is it fear? Fear of what, losing, being judged, pain? All things on earth are temporary. Don’t leave this world in regret.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Fear will make a weak man hide, while a strong man will stand up and face his fear.
Pain will make a weak man cry, while a strong man will carry his scars with honor.
Envy will make a weak man jealous, while a strong man will work even harder to reach his goals.
Anger will consume a weak man, while a strong man will calm himself before he acts.
DON’T BE WEAK.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Many people think progress is a contest climb upwards… But it’s not. On your journey you’ll fall, you’ll make mistakes, and you may even become lost. But to a winner none of that matters. If you fall you can climb back up. If you make a mistake you’ll learn from it. If you become lost you’ll find your way back.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“He that wants to reach the top won’t stop until he has.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Work hard. If you fail, learn from it and get back up. If the plan doesn’t go right, adapt and change it. If it’s too hard…good, if it was easy you wouldn’t grow.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“How many times will you get knocked down and get back up?”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Find what you love and do it every day. Practice makes perfect, and when you love it you learn twice as fast.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Someday you’ll look back and be grateful for all the hard work you put in.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“A setback won’t deter a man who is determined to reach his goals.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Some win some lose. But it’s not because of luck.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Many people say, "One day, I’ll start that". Don’t be that person. Act now; time waits for no one.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Never bet against a man with nothing to lose, and everything to gain.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Undo the hurt you wrought upon my kind, bring back the humans you've killed. Give my species the life they deserved to live, and treat us like your equals instead of looking down at us like we're nothing more than trash. Then I'll spare your life.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“If you think I'm going to stand down and be suppressed by you just because you have more power, then you're damn wrong. I won't stop until I'm dead or I've won, and if that means going to war with you, well, I'm already prepared for that.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“I don't care how hard it might be or how much the odds are stacked against me. I'd rather die a free man, or at least perish while trying, than live as a slave.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“Well, you know, it's only my life's purpose to free my people, so that keeps me getting back up every time.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“You underestimate me and my army. We humans will reclaim our freedom and take back our rightful spot as the most powerful species on Affer.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“You? Kill me? You couldn’t do that if I was severely injured and you were in peak condition. Just admit to yourself…you’re worthless. You never had a chance at winning.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“Your problem is that you've gotten lazy and complacent! You put your life on the line, training every day to reach the top, and when you got there, you forgot how to climb, you forgot the struggle, the burn, the grind. If you kept pushing yourself and kept striving for greatness, you would have been the greatest fighter the elves have ever seen.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“No one normal is going to change the world.”
― Matthew D Devitt

“Just because you aren't a slave doesn't mean you're necessarily free.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom

“This just gives us more motivation to keep going. To clean out the trash of society and not only free our people, but do our part to help rectify the wrongdoings that happen on this planet.”
― Matthew D Devitt, The Quest for Freedom