Sometimes thinking outside of the box has the power to open a window of opportunity you may never have realized.

Our latest collection of powerful and rare inspirational quotes on the Everyday Power Blog will help to open your eyes and mind on your journey towards success!

Tired of the same old inspirational quotes about life?

So are we! Here is a collection of rare inspirational quotes that are just as powerful but…you’ve probably never heard them before! Enjoy!

For more inspiration, be sure to also read our selection of meaningful quotes and sayings.

Rare Inspirational Quotes That You Probably Never Heard Of

1. “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis

2. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

3. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells

4. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

6. “Don’t let others decide who you are.” – Denis Rodman

7. “The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” – William James

8. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan

9. “Courage of the heart is very rare. Let it guide you.”― Sarah J. Maas

10. “Like water, every moment is precious.”― Michael Bassey Johnson

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11. “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney

12. “If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do” – George Bernard Shaw

13. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

14. “Think outside of the box, create your own path in life. “You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.” – Daniel Knode

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15. “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” – John Wooden

16. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

17. “If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

19. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim

20. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

21. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”- Ramana Maharshi

22. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”- Carl Jung

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23. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” – Elbert Hubbard

24. “Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.”― Claudia Bakker

25. “What makes you unique is what makes you attractive.”― Amit Kalantri

26. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln

27. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams

28. “In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end.” – Fernando Sabino

29. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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30. “Turn your can’t into a can, and your dream into plan!” –Cris Nikolov

31. “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” –Ruth E. Renkel

32. “Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.” –Lance Armstrong

33. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” –Charles F. Kettering

34. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.” –Leo Tolstoy

35. “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life.” –Eminem

36.  “It’s not up to you how you fall. It’s up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.” –Sr. Tac Jeffrey Mitchell

37. ”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” –Eric Thomas 

38. “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garve

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39. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” -Charles R. Swindoll

40. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” -St. Jerome

41. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” -Elon Musk

42. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett

43. “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” -Ken Venturi

44. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

45. “Love is a rare gem that needs to be polished, praised and pampered, every day!” – Unknown

46. “There is no opposite of love because love is everything. There is only an absence of love, which is fear.” – Unknown

47. “Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve.” – Unknown

48. “The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.” – Unknown

49. “You can’t go anywhere standing still, laying down or on your knees.” – Unknown

50. “Try to lose as large as possible and discover sides of you that will help you win like you’ve never won before.” – Unknown

51. “The key to success is to learn, and then do things on your own terms. The definition of success is to do things on your own terms. You get what you want, by being it and not chasing it!” – Unknown

52. “A miracle isn’t winning the lotto, it’s believing in yourself when you didn’t before.” – Unknown

53. “Dreams happen when you’re asleep. Hope happens when you dream while you’re awake.” – Unknown

54. “Choose your thoughts how you choose your clothes. Make sure they are the best fit for the time, place and location.” – Unknown

55. “Don’t just say what you say, live what you say!” – Unknown

56. “One of the fastest ways to improve your life is to simply do what you said you were going to do.” – Unknown

57. “The more we criticize and judge, the less time we have to love and take care of.” – Unknown

58. “Let’s be clear, we live every day. We only DIE once! Live and die for something!” – Unknown

59. “Say YES more often and life will return the favor.” – Unknown

60. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Unknown

Rare Inspirational Quotes To Give You Peace of Mind

61. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong

62. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” ― John Wayne

63. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ― William James

64. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ― Aristotle

65. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr

66. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” ― Thomas J. Watson

67. “Peace begins with a smile.” ― Mother Teresa

68. “I was raised to face any challenge.” ― Louis Zamperini

69. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” ― Pablo Picasso

70. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ― Aristotle