There may come moments in our lives when we feel as though we've lost the purpose to act. We all have our ups and downs, and it is during the bad times, that we need inspiration as a medicine that will help revive the best in us. The following quotes, will provide solace and motivate you to try again. 31 Inspirational Quotes and Sayings 1. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt 2. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. - Diane Mariechild 3. In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist. - Gloria Steinem 4. For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. - Elizabeth Blackwell 5. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland 6. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? - Matthew 6:25 7. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. - Louisa May Alcott 8. Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. - Proverbs 13:10 9. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! - Maya Angelou 10. The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. - Charles Malik 11. Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 12. Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. - Margaret Higgins Sanger 13. How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 14. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey 15. In politics, if you want anything said ask a man, if you want anything done ask a woman. - Margaret Hilda Thatcher 16. The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. - Susan Brownell Anthony 17. Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. - William Shakespeare 18. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith 19. Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good - on your mirror! - Susan Jeffers 20. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - James 1:2-4 21. I am not afraid... I was born to do this. - Joan of Arc 22. As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. - Adeline Virginia Woolf 23. A woman is like a tea bag, you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Nancy Davis Reagan 24. Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that is the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. - Angelina Jolie 25. When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. - Audre Lorde 26. If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. - Erma Bombeck 27. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. - Amelia Earhart 28. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Maya Angelou 29. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt 30. I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. - Anne Frank 31. Through strength, I will mend. Inspiration comes to you, or you go looking for it. Either ways, it helps you look at life from a new perspective. Pick your favorite among these, and pin it up on your desk for daily inspiration.