Top 303 Inspirational Quotes

Here we have the best Inspirational Quotes from famous authors such as Henry Rollins, Brittany Murphy, Lights, Christopher Morley, Molly Ivins. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

You can’t go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

‘Get along, go along’ is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash ’em in for your home state? No, I’d say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible‘!

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Theodore Roethke
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

President Obama called for a ‘we’ nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that’s what we need most in our country today.

I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan
I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Steve Berry
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it’s also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Honestly, the All In women‘s locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involvedChelsea, Britt, Madison, Jordynne Grace, Brandi Rhodes, Tenille Dashwood, Penelope Ford, Mandy Leon – is we all bring something so different to the table for a common vision.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I’m not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I’m not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I’m doing what I do to be successful. If that’s inspirational, then great.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I do love to eavesdrop. It’s inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Inside, I’ve got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

I’ve done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I’m onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour
Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration – for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That’s inspirational.

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox‘s or bear‘s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

My mind’s my kingdom.

Francis Quarles
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center‘s initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston’s and Texas‘ continued growth.

Great hopes make great men.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great
It was sad to leave ‘Pippin’ because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

A film like ‘Dangal’ is universal; though it narrates a story that happened in Punjab/Haryana, we like its inspirational story and its idea of celebrating the girl child.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Robert Quillen
If you’re funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you’re either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.

What we think, we become.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Madi Diaz
A place for everything, everything in its place.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I’ve ever done is a gift from God.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in ’82, ’83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped.

Chuck Schuldiner
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e e cummings
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Sharon Begley
There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Boris Vallejo
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

Garry Hynes
Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives.

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?

The only journey is the one within.

Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

Robert Battle
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

Fred Hammond
I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I’ve gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

Seeing RuPaul go out there and not only create music, but TV and film roles, and continue to go down so many creative avenues – that is inspirational. For a person of color like myself, I see RuPaul and I say, ‘Oh, honey, I can do it too.’

Prayer is man’s greatest power!

We are here to make another world.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Courage, my friends; ‘tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas
Try to be a rainbow in someone‘s cloud.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare
I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Harvey Weinstein
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e e cummings
If someone says ‘grunge‘ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

MasterChef‘s’ about real people and for real people. It’s aspirational and inspirational. There’s nothing snobbish about it.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Arthur Young
‘Can You See’ is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It’s a very inspirational song.

The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

I think it’s great that you have inspirational female roles, that it’s not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

Hannah John-Kamen
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

For years, I’ve worn my dainty gold bracelets with inspirational sayings and encouraging one-liners to motivate me in my career. I liked to look down at my wrist and be reminded of my goals.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I look up to a strong woman; maybe that’s why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.

Taylor Kinney
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it’s what I call the ‘momily’ – the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

‘All in With Laila Ali’ is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Light tomorrow with today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

I have a Children’s Charity in Cuckfield, West Sussex, which helps young children affected by cerebral palsy and associated disorders. The perseverance these young people display every day is inspirational.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

‘Ebony’ is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Jules Renard
We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

Steve Garvey
The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can’t afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J Sheen
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.

Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, ‘Church’ has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven’s viewpoint into history.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Kevin Brownlow
I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

Conor Maynard
Each day provides its own gifts.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they’ve brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They’ve made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They’ve sanitized it.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

William Allen White
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!

Ken Hensley
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The core of what we do is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and my music is a reflection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s not as much inspirational as it is spreading the Gospel.

I do love to eavesdrop. It’s inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.

Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Johannes Brahms
Inspirational content really resonates, like how to raise venture capital.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration – for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That’s inspirational.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang – even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

This is just rap. I’m not trying to make people think I’m some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

By now, you’ve probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Seeing RuPaul go out there and not only create music, but TV and film roles, and continue to go down so many creative avenues – that is inspirational. For a person of color like myself, I see RuPaul and I say, ‘Oh, honey, I can do it too.’

The best way out is always through.

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

Fred Hammond
In my experience, I have learned that there is rarely the perfect man for the perfect job, but Reagan was born to play the role of president. He was an inspirational leader when the country really needed it.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Every video I’ve made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, ‘Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.’ So if that’s the case, I have to keep everything rated G.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn’t want to do either.

Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I’m very fond of the British cinema. I’m a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he’s a great role model.

Steven Bauer
Think with your whole body.

Taisen Deshimaru
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.

Ray Manzarek
PUMA has been an iconic name in the fashion world for decades, their ability to remain at the top of the game in not only sportswear, but in culture and fashion is inspirational.

It was sad to leave ‘Pippin’ because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He’s the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I’ve ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Max Weinberg
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Henry Norris Russell
Craig Sager’s amazing attitude was truly inspirational. He was a champion during his battle, fighting every day with grace and humor.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

Watching my family work so hard has been so inspirational, and I think I really got their work ethic.

I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it’s so inspirational.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It’s time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That’s why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.

It’s music. It’s supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my ‘job,’ and I only did it to make money, I don’t think I’d still be doing it.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

In fact, I wouldn’t really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Don’t say I was an inspirational teacher – my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn’t do the children a disservice.

I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Jack Youngblood
Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse
We work very closely with HSN’s buying team, to ensure that our products and demonstrations are as exciting, educational and as inspirational as possible.

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I’ve won countless other awards, including ‘Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.’

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Mark Hopkins
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash
We will all agree that the role of a home-maker is not an easy one, and seeing all these ladies do it with such finesse is really inspirational! All of these strong women have inspired me a lot to get into the character as ‘Anupamaa’ truly resonates with their lives.

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe ‘Corazon Sin Cara’ would never had been made. It’s a very inspirational story.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

If you’re funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you’re either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson
When Bill Clinton ran in ’92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I’ve ever done is a gift from God.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Emile Zola
My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional – a 20 goosebump experience.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Hopefully, when people see ‘Senna’, they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.

If someone says ‘grunge‘ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

What’s on my playlist when I’m fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it’s something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I’m fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it’s a spiritual warfare for me.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It’s art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing’s forgotten.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that’s exactly how I approached it – only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I’ve always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read ‘Just Kids’ and it’s an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Create each day anew.

Reach for the stars.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Richard L Evans
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald
We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

Steve Garvey
In my experience, I have learned that there is rarely the perfect man for the perfect job, but Reagan was born to play the role of president. He was an inspirational leader when the country really needed it.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe ‘Corazon Sin Cara’ would never had been made. It’s a very inspirational story.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It’s empowering, and it’s inspirational as well, because you’re just like, ‘This is great!’

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Robert Schumann
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.