If you're like me, you use the beginning of a new year to set intentions and tap into the inspiration needed to realize those intentions. Just what almost the centre of the year? What nigh the time when that energy fades while your head is down and you're doing the piece of work? What do you exercise then?

The middle of the year is a great time to go inspired over again. Yes, the warm weather brings energy and optimism--but yous also need to recharge the internal motivation that keeps you going. Highly successful people know how to go dorsum to the well of motivation.

I've compiled a listing of inspiring quotes that should spark your energy generator, inspire you, and aid you get ready for the 2nd half of the year.

Quotes

  1. "Your fourth dimension is express, so don't waste it living someone else'south life." --Steve Jobs
  2. "Y'all have the chapters to leave a lasting impact and enduring impression upon this world.... Claim the sacred spaces of your minds, nurture and cultivate a vision of fulfillment, and movement toward that destiny with patience, perseverance, and prayer."  --Mahershala Ali
  3. "Cypher will work unless you do." --Maya Angelou
  4. "Don't let the fright of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki
  5. "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You lot practice not arraign them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You lot realize that you command your own destiny." --Albert Ellis
  6. "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and first charging for it." --Kim Garst
  7. "Comprehend what you lot don't know, specially in the start, because what you don't know can become your greatest nugget. It ensures that you lot will absolutely be doing things dissimilar from everybody else." --Sara Blakely
  8. "Don't give up. Don't ever give upwards." --Jimmy Valvano
  9. "I've missed more 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 20-six times, I've been trusted to accept the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." --Michael Jordan
  10. "What other people label or might try to call failure I have learned is but God's style of pointing you in a new direction." --Oprah Winfrey
  11. "From what nosotros get, we tin can make a living; what nosotros requite, still, makes a life."  --Arthur Ashe
  12. "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the ax." - -Abraham Lincoln
  13. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an alibi." --Florence Nightingale
  14. "Don't look. The time will never be just right." --Napoleon Loma
  15. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or another fourth dimension. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." --Barack Obama
  16. "In that location's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering." --Elon Musk
  17. "Our deepest fear is that nosotros are powerful beyond measure." --Marianne Williamson
  18. "I am learning to sympathize rather than immediately approximate or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I volition not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of office cosmos. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to empathize that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be sure, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. Information technology has added more to my bank of fortitude." --Bruce Lee
  19. "Your piece of work is discover your world and and then with all your centre give yourself to information technology." --attributed to theBuddha
  20. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the time to come; information technology is something you lot design for the present." --Jim Rohn
  21. "Fearlessness is like a musculus. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not allow my fears run me." --Arianna Huffington
  22. "Never be aback! There's some who will hold it confronting you, merely they are not worth bothering with." --J.M. Rowling
  23. "When yous have a dream, y'all've got to grab it and never let go." --Carol Burnett
  24. "In real life, the deed of creation is defying death. I call up it'southward just that dumb and simple." --Rick Owens
  25. "If you truly love life, don't waste material time, because time is what life is made of." --Bruce Lee
  26. "Success is empty if yous go far at the stop line solitary. The best reward is to get there surrounded by winners." --Howard Schultz
  27. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Sentry the stars, and see yourself running with them." --Marcus Aurelius
  28. "In the real globe, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and acquire. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes." --Robert Kiyosaki
  29. "If you always put limits on everything you exercise, physical or anything else, it will spread into your piece of work and into your life. There are no limits. There are just plateaus, and you must non stay there, you must become beyond them." --Bruce Lee
  30. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed past the things that you didn't exercise than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Canvass away from the prophylactic harbor. Grab the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --H. Jackson Chocolate-brown'south mother
  31. "Similar the wind that carries 1 send east and another w, the constabulary of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull y'all down according to the way that you fix your sails of thought." --Napoleon Hill