A Collection of Inspirational and Humorous Quotes
for each Zodiac Sign
cut to the chase… scroll down for Zodiac Quotes! 
or read on for the inside story:
It’s complicated…
Beyond the popular Sun Sign / Star Sign forecasts read in magazines, astrology is a multidimensional and mystical language that cannot be distilled into twelve zodiac signs. The limitations of labeling each person on planet earth by one of twelve sun signs is superficial and at best, amusing. No wonder many people look askance at astrology. Yes, even living here in California, I’ve had people walk away during conversation in which I’ve mentioned that I am an astrologer. And worse.
The way I look at it, we each have a slice of every flavor of the entire astrological pie. No one is purely Virgo or Leo or any one sign. Reading an individual’s birth chart is like unwrapping a birthday present. What complexities, contradictions and harmonies lie beneath one simple sun sign? People are singularly unique and fascinating with lives of immense potential!
Then… why Zodiac Quotes?
The signs of the zodiac are one of the essential building blocks of interpreting an astrological chart. Learning about the zodiac is a way of understanding the twelve signs’ approach to life. I hope you enjoy reading my collection. It was fun to create! Do you have a favorite inspirational or humorous quote that that would be a fit? Leave a message in the comments below, I’d love to hear from you!
Aries
“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.” Ruth Gordon
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon
“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” Ken Kesey
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.” Alexander Haig
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” Tina Fey
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.” Diane Arbus
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.” William Makepeace Thackeray
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Agatha Christie
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Taurus
“I’m not stubborn. My way is just better.” Maya Banks
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.” Walt Whitman
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” Mary Oliver
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You will always have value and nothing can change that.” Elizabeth Smart
“I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality.” Padma Lakshmi
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” Rachel Carson
“Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.” Jane Smiley
Gemini
“Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.” Carlos Santana
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Don’t be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.” Terry Pratchett
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” William Arthur Ward
“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.” Jim Butcher
“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.” Diane Sawyer
“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” Susan Sontag
“Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.” Diane Ackerman
“The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.” Jean de la Bruyere
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.” John Locke
Cancer
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” Jane Austen
“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” Christian Morgenstern
“I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy.” Jennifer Hudson
“Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.“ Leo Buscaglia
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” Cesar Chavez
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.” Thomas Carlyle
“The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.” Diane Arbus
“Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.” Melissa Etheridge
“It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe — though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived.” Susan Sontag
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.“ Marcus Garvey
Leo
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” Maya Angelou
“The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.” Robert Breault
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The whole motivation for any performer is “Look at me, Ma.” Lenny Bruce
“I love living on that stage. Without that, I’d die.” Celia Cruz
“I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.” Ingrid Bergman
“When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.” Ellen DeGeneres
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.” Hāfiz
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.” Jim Carrey
“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” Julia Child
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou
Virgo
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Clare Boothe Luce
“It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.” Jenny Craig
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Helen Keller
“Service is what life is all about.” Marian Wright Edelman
“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” Danny Thomas
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” Voltaire
“Healthy striving is self-focused: “How can I improve?” Perfectionism is other-focused: “What will they think?” Brené Brown
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” William Morris
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.” Cicero
“Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.” Terry Gross
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.” Beryl Markham
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.” – Lee Iacocca
Libra
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” Winston S. Churchill
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” Margaret Thatcher
“Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” Helen Keller
“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.” Harper Lee
“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.” William Hazlitt
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” Bertrand Russell
“I don’t accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.” Krista Tippett
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
“Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.” Elizabeth Gilbert
“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” Jennifer Aniston
“We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by “either-or.” There is often the possibility of something better than either of two given alternatives.” Mary Parker Follett
“I think the truth is that if you really care about the quality of somebody’s life as much as you care about the quality of your own, you have it made.” Edith Windsor
Scorpio
“Perhaps it’s the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists – people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change – who stand the best chance of penetrating life’s mysteries.” Hugh Mackay
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
“Everything in your life will improve as soon as your determination to move forward is stronger than your reluctance to let go.” Timber Hawkeye
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” Helen Keller
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” Brené Brown
“Everything good I’ve ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.” Elizabeth Gilbert
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” Iyanla Vanzant
“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.” Isabel Allende
“When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.” Alice Walker
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon.
You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her,
but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.”
Neil Gaiman
“After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?” Halle Berry
Sagittarius
“The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘Yes!’ to your adventure.” Joseph Campbell
“Let’s not quibble! I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, “I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.” Tallulah Bankhead
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.” Terry Pratchett
“Unless one’s philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.” Mary Ritter Beard
“The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.” William J. Brennan, Jr.
“Enthusiasm means ‘of the Gods’. When you have an enthusiastic heart, all the heavens can flow through it.” Sonia Choquette
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” Margaret Fuller
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams
“Bravery and adventure! That’s the ticket! Don’t sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, and you don’t need to make that particular mistake again, but at least you won’t get old wondering what if you had.” Garrison Keillor
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.” Paulo Coelho
Capricorn
“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.” Wilma Mankiller
“If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” Rachel Maddow
“Old people as “elders of the tribe” should be seeking and safe-guarding the survival of the tribe — the larger public interest.” Maggie Kuhn
“No one is wise by birth. Wisdom results from one’s own efforts.” Krishnamacharya
“The important thing about responsibility is not to whom you are responsible, but for what you are responsible.” Mary Parker Follett
“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.” Cicely Tyson
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” Margaret Mead
“If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.” Don Ward
“One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on “going it alone.” Somehow we’ve come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It’s as if we’ve divided the world into “those who offer help” and “those who need help.” The truth is that we are both.” Brené Brown
“The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.” Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Aquarius
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” Margaret Mead
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
“My goal is to do something outrageous every day.” Maggie Kuhn
“Of course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.” Shirley MacLaine
“I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.” Barbara Streisand
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.” Thomas J. Watson
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. “ e. e. cummings
“Eccentric doesn’t bother me. ‘Eccentric’ being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn’t follow the lines – that’s okay.” Crispin Glover
“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” Madonna
“Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world – like grace – and shines on everybody.” Garrison Keillor
“Making mental connections is our most critical learning tool, the essence of human intelligence: to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationship, context.” Marilyn Ferguson
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” Jane Goodall
“Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.” Emma Goldman
Pisces
“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” Gloria Steinem
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” Jack Kornfield
“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.” Dorothy Thompson
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” Rachel Carson
“Escapism isn’t good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.” Terry Pratchett
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
“Imagination is the only weapon on the war against reality.” Jules de Gautier
“What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.” Jane Wagner
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Pema Chödrön
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