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Poetry can be used quite effectively to challenge and inspire, perhaps better than prose if it is done well. These are some particularly inspiring poems.

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars. - Carl Sandburg

1. The Sower by Mathilde Blind
2. To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

   God guides the paths of bird and man

3. Little Things by Julia Carney
4. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough
5. Where There's a Will There's a Way by Eliza Cook
6. Success is counted sweetest by Emily Dickinson
7. My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is by Sir Edmund Dyer
8. What Is to Come by William Ernest Henley
9. Invictus by William Ernest Henley

   I am the captain of my soul
   

10. God, give us men! by Josiah Gilbert Holland
11. Lowlands by William Reed Huntington
12. The Victory of Patience by Helen Hunt Jackson
13. If by Rudyard Kipling

    what you can accomplish in life

14. Loss and Gain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    assessing your life

15. Brotherhood by Edwin Markham
16. The Seekers by John Masefield
17. Transcience by Sorajini Naidu
18. Mont Brevent by George Santayana
19. Morning Sorrows by Charles Turner
20. The Undiscovered Country by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
21. Which are You? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    There are two kinds of people in the world, but perhaps not the kinds you were thinking of.

22. The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton