This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy.
Reading and collecting encouraging, inspirational quotes is one of my favorite strategies for positive thinking that can lead to increased health and happiness. Many folks write to tell me that my inspiring quotations are their favorite part of my daily emails. I’ve been told to compile them into an eBook to sell.
Related Content:
Encouraging Inspiring Quotes – May
May 1
“Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.” ~Alan Cohen
May 2
“When you plant positive thoughts anything is possible” ~ Heather Stillufsen
May 3
“Commit to your goals. Stay focused on your dreams and don’t give up! It’s time to make things happen!” ~Heather Stillufsen
May 4
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
May 5
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates
May 6
“Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” ~ Will Rogers
May 7
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that. The really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain
May 8
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~
May 9
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” ~J.K. Rowling
May 10
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.” ~ Moliere
May 11
“If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.” ~ Irish proverb
May 12
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
May 13
Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ~ Betty Friedan
May 14
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ~ Stephen King
May 15
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
May 16
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Herman Cain
May 17
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
May 18
“If I really want to improve my situation I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
May 19
“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
May 20
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
May 21
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~ Winston Churchill
May 22
“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith
May 23
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller
May 24
“Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.” ~Julia Cameron
May 25
“When you know what you want and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” ~ Jim Rohn
May 26
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
May 27
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” ~ Jim Rohn
May 28
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
May 29
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
May 30
“Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” ~ Unknown
May 31
“You cannot conquer what you are not committed to.” ~ T.D. Jakes
