inspirational and motivational quotes

inspirational and motivational quotes for leadership, self-development, training, teaching, writing, speeches, and simply to help you feel good - funny sayings and useful maxims are here; position: 

Here are some of the best inspirational quotes for training and teaching, personal fulfilment, self-development, visualisation, and general motivational purposes.

Quotes - especially positive suggestions - are very strong medicine.
Simply reading a few wonderful quotes can often help make you feel good about yourself and life in general. Quotes help especially through visualization. The brain responds almost magically.

Funny quotes which are humorous and also clever and meaningful, are particularly effective, because we all love to be entertained and amused while we are learning.
These quotes can also be helpful for presentations, public speaking, management, leadership and coaching - especially for ethical development of people, teams, and organizations.

A great quote can convey a complex concept in just a few words, and in an age of information-overload, this is extremely useful obviously - to cut through the crap - to get your point across - to help people sit up and take real notice.
And to remember a point or lesson of course. Good relevant quotes are memorable. Some people carry their favourite quotations with them for all of their lives.
These powerful quotes have been moved here from the original quotes collection which includes less serious sayings, maxims, and examples of amusing language of various sorts. 

You will have seen some of famous quotes below before but perhaps not known the origins and authors. Other quotations in this collection are less well-known, but are inspirational just the same.
Some of these quotes are commonly misunderstood, mis-quoted, and falsely attributed, which this collection seeks to clarify, for example:

• The Mandela Inaugural Speech Myth (actually written by Marianne Williamson and never used by Mandela)
• The Everybody Somebody Anybody Nobody poem (and likely origins)
• The Guy In The Glass (wrongly known as 'The Man in the Mirror')
• The Serenity Prayer
• Come to the Edge
• The 'Success Poem'

Please note that where quotes on this page refer to 'man' or 'men' this is not intended to be discriminatory, and where appropriate you should use a similar explanation when using quotes which could give such an impression.

See the section on motivation for explanation of why quotes and sayings inspire people, including yourself, and how these inspirational quotes stimulate motivation and self-belief, and promote self-development, personal growth and fulfilment