# Inspirational quotes from famous people **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [February 9, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711 "2026-02-09T20:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/1 "2026-02-09T20:15:04Z")
“Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect.” —_Eleanor C. Wood,_ Reader’s Digest, _July 1970_ ---
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/2 "2026-02-09T20:19:04Z")
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.” —_Louis Nizer,_ Reader’s Digest, _Jan. 1978_ ---
**Author:** ![everhopeful](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/everhopeful/32/605_2.png) [@everhopeful](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/everhopeful)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/3 "2026-02-09T20:23:38Z")
That reminds me of this **“Old age sure ain’t for sissies.”** Ruth S. Hain of Castro Valley, California Reader’s Digest magazine of April 1968 ---
**Author:** ![Vaiana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/vaiana/32/1879_2.png) [@Vaiana](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vaiana)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/4 "2026-02-09T20:28:11Z")
“People don’t have to like you People don’t have to love you They don’t even have to respect you But when you look in the mirror you better love what you see” Sheryl Lee Ralph ---
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/5 "2026-02-09T20:28:13Z")
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” —_Jonathan Winters,_ Reader’s Digest, _June 1990_ ---
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/6 "2026-02-09T20:33:09Z")
“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” —_John Lennon,_ Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotes, _2013_ ---
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/7 "2026-02-09T20:37:45Z")
“Faith is taking the first step. Even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —_**[Martin Luther King Jr.](https://www.rd.com/list/the-best-quotes-of-martin-luther-king-jr/)**_, Reader’s Digest, _Sept. 2014_ ---
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/8 "2026-02-09T20:38:56Z")
“In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.” —_Bernie Siegel,_ Reader’s Digest, _July 1990_ ---
**Author:** ![see121](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@see121](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/see121)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/9 "2026-02-15T02:54:47Z")
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” George Elliot ---
**Author:** ![FreeLunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/freelunch/32/1001_2.png) [@FreeLunch](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/FreeLunch)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/10 "2026-02-15T03:04:09Z")
Have you read George Eliot? I’ve wanted to read her for a while but I’m intimidated ---
**Author:** ![see121](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@see121](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/see121)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/11 "2026-02-15T03:08:27Z")
I have never read George Elliott, but I’ve heard one of her famous novels Middlemarch. ---
**Author:** ![FreeLunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/freelunch/32/1001_2.png) [@FreeLunch](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/FreeLunch)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/12 "2026-02-15T03:19:44Z")
Cuz you heard it on book on tape? ---
**Author:** ![see121](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@see121](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/see121)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/13 "2026-02-15T03:24:04Z")
No, I have read a lot of classics but never got around to that novel but heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![77nick77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/77nick77/32/147_2.png) [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:49am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/14 "2026-02-15T03:49:37Z")
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![FreeLunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/freelunch/32/1001_2.png) [@FreeLunch](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/FreeLunch)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/15 "2026-02-15T03:57:11Z")
Dilika Ntaba Sibonane Mountain fall down so that we may see each other -zulu ---
**Author:** ![Jabrown1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/jabrown1/32/15923_2.png) [@Jabrown1](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Jabrown1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/16 "2026-02-15T20:34:36Z")
Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.. -Robert deniro-good fellas ---
**Author:** ![FreeLunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/freelunch/32/1001_2.png) [@FreeLunch](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/FreeLunch)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/18 "2026-02-16T22:09:21Z")
Detroit is the s hit haha ---
**Author:** ![POET](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/poet/32/485_2.png) [@POET](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/POET)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/19 "2026-02-16T23:01:03Z")
To be or not to be that is the skibity — Einstein ---
**Author:** ![Daydreamer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/daydreamer/32/3042_2.png) [@Daydreamer](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Daydreamer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/20 "2026-02-16T23:04:11Z")
You shall not pass- JRR Tolkien- against the Balrog ---
**Author:** ![77nick77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/77nick77/32/147_2.png) [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711/21 "2026-02-17T02:31:54Z")
“This too shall pass” Proctologist to constipated patient. [Next page](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/inspirational-quotes-from-famous-people/2711.md?page=2)