Quotesperation
Find inspiration in words that resonate with your soul
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
— Steve Jobs
Daily Essential Quotes
Start each day with hand-picked quotes delivered to your inbox.
Featured Quote Collections
View All Collections →
Friendship Quotes
Explore the best friendship quotes about true friends, loyalty, trust, betrayal, love, and lifelong bonds. Browse curated quote collections by theme.
Life Quotes
Explore the deepest questions of existence. A curated collection of quotes on the journey of life, the pursuit of wisdom, the beauty of struggle, and the acceptance of mortality.
Books and Knowledge
Explore the best quotes about the power of reading, the magic of libraries, book collecting, literary wisdom, and the timeless bond between reader and author.
Winning Mindset, Rivalries, and Championships
Explore powerful sports team quotes about confidence, championships, rivalries, preparation, pressure, and winning mindset. Curated collections for teams, athletes, coaches, and fans.
Best Success and Achievement
Discover the true meaning of success. Explore curated quotes on resilience, the daily habits of achievers, overcoming failure, and finding fulfillment beyond wealth.
Persistence and Progress
Discover the power of steady progress. Explore curated quotes on overcoming challenges, simplifying complex problems, staying focused, and the art of getting things done.
Explore Popular Quote Categories
Today's Featured Authors
Inspiring words from notable figures
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
People say bad things about you in the paper on Monday, and then on Wednesday, you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. I’ve seen that cycle, so why would I be nervous about it happening?
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
Today's Featured Topics
Quotes curated by theme
There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise.
It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.
Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations. Debra Evans, Heart and Home
I vowed to choose death over fear, to look life and love in the eye, with all of its madness.
Without the height of the peak and the depth of our commitment to scale it, we will spend the whole of our lives viewing our dreams from the bottom looking up.
Start anywhere, with whatever is in front of you. The key is to begin - and to trust that as long as you’re putting one foot in front of the other, eventually you'll get to where you need to, or at the very least, much farther than you had initially imagined.