QUOTES
Inspirational Quotes
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.|Walt Whitman
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.|Francis of Assisi
I can’t change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.|Jimmy Dean
Nothing is impossible the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!|Audrey Hepburn
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.|Edith Wharton
Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.|Vince Lombardi
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.|Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.|Robert Louis Stevenson
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.|Aristotle Onassis
As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.|John F. Kennedy
Ah but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp Or what’s a heaven for?|Robert Browning
No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.|Aesop
To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.|Lao Tzu
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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.|Bear Bryant
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is never too late to be what you might have been.|George Eliot
If I have seen further than others it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.|Isaac Newton
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.|Robert Frost
No matter what people tell you words and ideas can change the world.|Robin Williams
If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.|Milton Berle
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.|Martin Luther
The only journey is the one within.|Rainer Maria Rilke
We can’t help everyone but everyone can help someone.|Ronald Reagan
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.|Alexander the Great
We know what we are but know not what we may be.|William Shakespeare
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.|Desmond Tutu
Every story I create creates me. I write to create myself.|Octavia E. Butler
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises us above ourselves.|Robert Quillen
Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.|Sharon Begley
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.|Jim Rohn
Change your thoughts and you change your world.|Norman Vincent Peale
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.|Tony Robbins
If we did all the things we are capable of we would literally astound ourselves.|Thomas A. Edison
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.|Hosea Ballou
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.|Nido Qubein
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.|Arthur C. Clarke
In a gentle way you can shake the world.|Mahatma Gandhi
All you need is the plan the road map and the courage to press on to your destination.|Earl Nightingale
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.|Nathaniel Hawthorne
When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.|Carol Burnett
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.|Jack Dempsey
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.|Les Brown
Give light and people will find the way.|Ella Baker
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.|Anne Frank
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.|Unknown
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity wonder spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.|e. e. cummings
You must do the things you think you cannot do.|Eleanor Roosevelt
If there were no night we would not appreciate the day nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare they purge they purify and thus they bless.|James E. Faust
Whatever you vividly imagine ardently desire sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!|Paul J. Meyer
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.|Plato
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
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.|Democritus
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.|Napoleon Hill
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.|Plutarch
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.|Bertrand Russell
Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.|Bill Copeland
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.|Neil Armstrong
Keep your feet on the ground but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.|Arthur Helps
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.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief creates the actual fact.|William James
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.|William Blake
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open except yourself.|Jiddu Krishnamurti
Out of difficulties grow miracles.|Jean de la Bruyere
A place for everything everything in its place.|Benjamin Franklin
Light tomorrow with today!|Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Memories of our lives of our works and our deeds will continue in others.|Rosa Parks
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.|Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.|F. Scott Fitzgerald
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.|Aeschylus
You don’t look out there for God something in the sky you look in you.|Alan Watts
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.|Amelia Barr
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past which can bridge to the future.|Mattie Stepanek
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.|Richard Bach
I believe that if one always looked at the skies one would end up with wings.|Gustave Flaubert
If you accept the expectations of others especially negative ones then you never will change the outcome.|Michael Jordan
And above all things never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.|Isaac Asimov
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
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high no trouble too difficult to overcome.|Wilma Rudolph
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.|John Wooden
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.|Benjamin Disraeli
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.|Victor Hugo
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.|Hermann Hesse
Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.|Johannes Brahms
Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.|Michelangelo
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.|Thomas Merton
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.|Henry Van Dyke
Your heart is full of fertile seeds waiting to sprout.|Morihei Ueshiba
Courage my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.|Tommy Douglas
I dwell in possibility.|Emily Dickinson
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.|Andre Gide
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down like a hailstorm.|Jean Paul
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it.|Lucy Larcom
The most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itself.|Wallace Stevens
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.|Dale Carnegie
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.|Junipero Serra
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.|Hans Christian Andersen
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.|Henry Rollins
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.|Bernard Williams
The authentic self is the soul made visible.|Sarah Ban Breathnach
Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.|Desiderius Erasmus
I said to the almond tree ‘Friend speak to me of God ‘ and the almond tree blossomed.|Nikos Kazantzakis
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.|Christa McAuliffe
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.|Edward Young
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.|Vincent McNabb
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.|Han Suyin
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.|C. S. Lewis
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.|Joyce Meyer
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.|Meister Eckhart
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.|Phillips Brooks
And when I breathed my breath was lightning.|Black Elk
We relish news of our heroes forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.|Helen Hayes
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.|Theodore Roethke
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?|Robert H. Schuller
God sleeps in the minerals awakens in plants walks in animals and thinks in man.|Arthur Young
Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.|William Morris
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.|Marlee Matlin
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
When deeds speak words are nothing.|Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.|Blaise Pascal
If you could only love enough you could be the most powerful person in the world.|Emmet Fox
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.|Anatole France
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.|Henry Ward Beecher
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.|Nikolai Gogol
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.|Guru Nanak
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.|Matthew Prior
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.|Pope Paul VI
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.|Wallis Simpson
Ideas shape the course of history.|John Maynard Keynes
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday nor in tomorrow.|Loretta Young
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.|Audre Lorde
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.|Charles Kettering
I arise full of eagerness and energy knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.|Zane Grey
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
We are here to make another world.|W. Edwards Deming
Our ideals are our better selves.|Amos Bronson Alcott
It’s a moment that I’m after a fleeting moment but not a frozen moment.|Andrew Wyeth
Enthusiasm moves the world.|Arthur Balfour
Of all things visible the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.|Nicolaus Copernicus
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
And now this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.|Donald Cargill
Whatever ought to be can be.|James Rouse
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.|Robert Schumann
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.|Pope John XXIII
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings I now with a high sense of gratitude presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty the Creator and Preserver.|William Bartram
Think with your whole body.|Taisen Deshimaru
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.|Christopher Morley
My mind’s my kingdom.|Francis Quarles
Let us make our future now and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.|Malala Yousafzai
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.|Joseph Campbell
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
Each day provides its own gifts.|Marcus Aurelius
We convince by our presence.|Walt Whitman
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.|Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.|Maya Angelou
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.|Francis of Assisi
With self-discipline most anything is possible.|Theodore Roosevelt
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.|Anne Frank
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.|Lao Tzu
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.|Vince Lombardi
One today is worth two tomorrows.|Benjamin Franklin
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.|Steve Jobs
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.|Helen Keller
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!|John Muir
I love those who yearn for the impossible.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.|Amelia Barr
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.|Napoleon Hill
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.|Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.|Marlee Matlin
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.|George Eliot
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.|Arthur C. Clarke
Create each day anew.|Morihei Ueshiba
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.|Henry David Thoreau
Reach for the stars.|Christa McAuliffe
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.|Phillips Brooks
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.|Aeschylus
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.|Friedrich Schiller
Of all human activities man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.|Pope Paul VI
What we think we become.|Buddha
Look within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.|Marcus Aurelius
I celebrate myself and sing myself.|Walt Whitman
We can change our lives. We can do have and be exactly what we wish.|Tony Robbins
The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.|Richard Bach
Nothing is worth more than this day.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want to make this world perfect.|Malala Yousafzai
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
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?|Stephen Colbert
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998 paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.|Queen Elizabeth II
Your personal life your professional life and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle for me is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day – as long as you treat it that way.|Skylar Grey
Brand is not a product that’s for sure; it’s not one item. It’s an idea it’s a theory it’s a meaning it’s how you carry yourself. It’s aspirational it’s inspirational.|Kevin Plank
To be an Instagram model you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini – even if that is exactly what you are doing. No you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt you’re a gosh dang philosopher.|Kat Timpf
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.|Marianne Williamson
I thought ‘Moulin Rouge’ was inspirational and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ I loved.|Pierce Brosnan
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.|David Chipperfield
I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do and who pursue it is inspirational for me.|Colin Morgan
I don’t dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the ’80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it’s all about status and bling now and it doesn’t say anything to me.|Noel Gallagher
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.|Tony Evans
‘Star Wars’ is fun its exciting its inspirational and people respond to that. It’s what they want.|George Lucas
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.|Christina Grimmie
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.|Brittany Murphy
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.|Rupali Ganguly
Like the United Nations there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps the United Nations works tirelessly around the clock around the world.|Ban Ki-moon
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.|Sara Davies
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.|Atif Aslam
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.|Young Jeezy
Watching my family work so hard has been so inspirational and I think I really got their work ethic.|Chloe Kim
When I am working out I listen to inspirational speeches.|Julian Edelman
I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I’m trying to do creatively. At the same time I do think it’s wonderful when I hear people say that it’s inspirational that I’m an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse and my friends are a diverse group of people.|Mindy Kaling
I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.|R. Kelly
I would say I’m an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.|Chris Brown
We weren’t the Temptations but when we came out onstage the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality.|Curtis Mayfield
Whenever I would go to Hrithik’s vanity van to chat or rehearse lines I’d see him working out or watching inspirational videos. One thing that I’ve learnt from him is that as an actor you have to worship your body.|Mrunal Thakur
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.|Nargis Fakhri
I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can hopefully help others achieve goals in their own lives.|Montel Vontavious Porter
I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen’s death. He was a genius and his talent was second to none. Like many others I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.|Matthew Williamson
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.|Cheryl James
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.|Gabby Douglas
Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance not administration and management.|Cheryl Crawford
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.|Christine Pelosi
Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I’m a huge Betty Carter fan and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.|Cecile McLorin Salvant
Our country is one of the youngest in the world. Our youngsters need to be told inspirational stories.|Sudha Kongara
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.|Antony Gormley
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
Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal coming up with an inspirational solution… It’s very addictive. But it doesn’t last long. In isolation it’s a bit sterile. It doesn’t reward the soul.|John Caudwell
I think that’s a great opportunity to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it’s inspirational. If it’s something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not then it’s really not worth doing.|Carly Schroeder
I knew regardless of anything else singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.|George Michael
‘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.|Molly Ivins
My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic inspirational and emotional – a 20 goosebump experience.|David L. Wolper
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.|Karthi
It is such a luxury to open a new book that’s highly recommended by friends – either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir or a page-turning piece of fiction.|Kelli O’Hara
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.|Malala Yousafzai
I’m not here to impose Sharia law and I’m not here to have a message about disability being inspirational – I’m here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question make people not only laugh but be offended… I have to do that.|Maysoon Zayid
Jesu’s walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band’s 2009 album ‘Infinity’ has its bleak moments but that album’s single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it’s over.|Anthony Fantano
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I’m brave or inspirational and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.|Stella Young
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.|Michael D. Higgins
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.|Tyron Woodley
I may not have got the Nobel Prize but I’ve won countless other awards including ‘Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.’|Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say ‘Wow she looks healthy.’|Ireland Baldwin
It’s as if inside the White House the belief in Obama’s inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes it’s a startling revelation.|Tina Brown
I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but as a whole makes it what it is.|Nargis Fakhri
I’d like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.|Candice Swanepoel
Although he’s no longer with us Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.|Imran Amed
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it’s also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.|Bruce Dickinson
I really think that it’s disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life – Diana an inspirational woman – and then it changed but they still won’t change it in London! It’s horrible!|Cara Delevingne
I grew up in a bookless house – my parents didn’t read poetry so if I hadn’t had the chance to experience it at school I’d never have experienced it. But I loved English and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker and they liked us to learn poems by heart which I found I loved doing.|Carol Ann Duffy
I’ve never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.|Winnie Harlow
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.|Robert Trujillo
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens I have it there so nothing’s forgotten.|Gabrielle Aplin
I’ve been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I’m one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.|Catherine Ryan Hyde
I have to deal with people in weird ways. I was walking down the street and this woman walks up to me and she goes ‘You know I think it’s so inspirational that you’re out.’ I was like ‘I’m on my way to the liquor store. Are you inspired?’|Josh Blue
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.|Adnan Sami
Like inspirational quotes which have been huge on Pinterest. Or looking at dog photos! We didn’t know how to take those uses for Pinterest seriously until we realized sometimes even I look at Pinterest to feel better not just do something but feel happier to feel connection to feel humor to know everyone goes through difficult times.|Evan Sharp
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.|Reggie Watts
I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.|Rosie O’Donnell
When I started my career I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational but as I continued to grow I’ve met so many different people who ask ‘How do you do it? You make it look easy.’ But it’s not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.|Karen Civil
The hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ is so inspirational – I wish I’d written it.|Neil Sedaka
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.|Neill Blomkamp
I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks – and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.|Bobby Keys
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.|Donatella Versace
This is just rap. I’m not trying to make people think I’m some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.|Action Bronson
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
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.|Damien Rice
A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I’m inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.|Jazz Jennings
I feel like when you call me inspirational it takes away from the success that I’ve actually had. Would you say that to any other comic that just ripped the mic for an hour?|Josh Blue
The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.|Carter Burwell
If we get out there trying to be inspirational then we probably won’t be.|Brendan Hunt
The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother.|Nicole Maines
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.|Sebastian Coe
I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar and it’s so inspirational.|Joe Bonamassa
I don’t really watch too many movies but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.|Syd
My father was very strict a very militant parent because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions so we didn’t watch TV. And he didn’t want any music playing that wasn’t gospel or inspirational music. In fact he didn’t even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.|Lizz Wright
People like the feeling of access that is very raw unedited and inspirational.|Justin Kan
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past – Gandhi Martin Luther King Nelson Mandela – they’re all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi wouldn’t it?|Dennis C. Blair
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.|Max Martin
I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. I lived in Ocean Beach and my rent was $140 a month.|Jeffrey Tambor
As far as me being inspirational to other combat-wounded guys I would say that it’s the opposite. To see guys at Walter Reed that I recovered with every day and they were missing every single one of their limbs – that is what I would say is inspiring.|Kyle Carpenter
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.|Nikki Sixx
Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.|Pele
I had hoped when my life was chronicled it would be an inspirational story.|Om Puri
It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night – truly inspirational.|Shawn Mendes
As women and men we’re not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.|Jennifer Hyman
The ‘Dezeen’s of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.|Marcel Wanders
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.|Taylor Dayne
I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.|Thundercat
I’m not an inspirational quote kind of person.|Chrissy Teigen
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they’ve proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who’s always been inspirational to me.|Dustin Clare
Every song you’re trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I’m really drawn to are inspirational songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you’re from.|Rodney Atkins
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.|Yo Gotti
I’m a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don’t get up in the morning and think I’m inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.|Lee Pearson
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.|Adam Beach
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn’t encouraged so much but my parents encouraged that and it has made me part of who I am.|Sasha Grey
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
Inspirational content really resonates like how to raise venture capital.|Justin Kan
You can’t go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.|Lights
Peter Stoger is very very inspirational communicating a lot being open and approachable for the players.|Mario Gotze
Barack Obama’s inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed they are downright disappointing – until someone wins.|Joe Klein
Roosevelt’s declaration that Americans had ‘nothing to fear but fear itself’ was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.|Russell Baker
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.|Ellen Stofan
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.|James Haven
I view art as an inspirational tool.|Thomas Kinkade
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.|Amy Sedaris
Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That’s the hardest thing to find.|Anand Mahindra
The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.|Asma Jahangir
I think aesthetically car design is so interesting – the dashboards the steering wheels and the beauty of the mechanics. I don’t know how any of it works I don’t want to know but it’s inspirational.|Paloma Picasso
Lack of enthusiasm in the stands tends to be less inspirational on the field. It doesn’t send the chills down your spine. It’s not that magic moment that you dream about growing up.|Howie Long
Honestly the All In women’s locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involved – Chelsea 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.|Tessa Blanchard
Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are but the music isn’t.|Alexander McQueen
I think women think I’m inspirational because I’m unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I’ve got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don’t because I don’t know any other body. I don’t know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley.|Ashley Graham
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.|Susie Wolff
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place ask Herman Melville Jack London Nordhoff and Hall Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It’s a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.|John Cooper Clarke
We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It’s so great to see women in positions of power which is why other artists such as Marilyn Minter are so inspirational to me.|Petra Collins
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
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I’ve done my job.|Aretha Franklin
I wrote ‘(‘Til) I Kissed You’ about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian and she was very very inspirational. I was married but… I wrote the song about her on the way back home.|Don Everly
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.|Anna Deavere Smith
I wanted to write a book about what it’s like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself – that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner and it’s so great to reinvent yourself the brand of you. And I wanted to say you know it’s not like that. It’s actually really painful.|Daniel Lyons
I love inspirational R&B like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.|Ashthon Jones
We’re in a situation where talented motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what that just feels wrong.|Jameela Jamil
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
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there’s anything wrong with ‘Casino Royale.’ But ‘Happy Feet’ – written and directed by George Miller – is a complete charmer even if in the way of most family fare it can’t resist straying into the Inspirational.|Robert Gottlieb
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.|Juan Mata
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.|Rachel Hollis
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.|Lydia Lunch
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
When Maurice touched a keyboard it was like something from a movie magical. He would always give you something from a movie and you’d go what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings amazing. That’s what we’re going to miss.|Robin Gibb
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It’s an upper. We have enough downers in the world.|Roma Downey
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
In fact I wouldn’t really call this a Gospel album I call it more an inspirational album.|Smokey Robinson
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.|Smokey Robinson
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.|Smokey Robinson
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.|Jack Youngblood
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.|Mindy Kaling
I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.|Harvey Weinstein
I do love to eavesdrop. It’s inspirational not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue the way people talk.|Lynda Barry
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.|James Iha
Since we launched the original ‘Pop Idol’ in England I’ve remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on ‘American idol’ for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.|Nigel Lythgoe
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
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
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.|Sophie Kinsella
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.|Harsha Bhogle
I think ‘Heroes of Cosplay’ will show a lot of the positive things like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren’t taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.|Yaya Han
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.|Rose George
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.|Soledad O’Brien
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher and then I just went on to university.|Jessica Raine
Personally I can’t see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational I don’t have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.|Jamie Johnson
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.|Wesley Clark
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
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 Spain will always remain inspirational and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.|Daniel Boulud
‘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.|Laila Ali
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.|Prince Royce
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they’re pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It’s very calculated.|Chris Benz
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
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.|Asif Kapadia
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.|Michelle Phan
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!’|Rose Leslie
When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.|Andrew Lincoln
Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I’ve ever seen… to a superhero. He’s amazing. He’s inspirational.|Malachi Kirby
‘Can You See’ is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It’s a very inspirational song.|Ally Brooke
‘Ebony’ is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.|Linda Johnson Rice
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is at its heart inspirational.|Andris Nelsons
The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers hymns American music Broadway numbers popular songs and inspirational music. If the audience doesn’t like one genre they need only wait for the next number.|Mack Wilberg
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.|Tim Matheson
We learn about MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?|Jennifer Hyman
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?|Max Joseph
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.|Hari Nef
I do kind of marvel at my journey. But at the same time I look back at a lot of the steps and maybe not every step but a lot of the steps and since I was 12 or 13 I look at the people who helped me and the moments that were inspirational to me and you can recall what my mindset and what my make-up was at that time to try and be the best.|Chris Bosh
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.|Greg Davies
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.|Greg Davies
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.|Taboo
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.|Max Boot
Late in my career I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn’t want to do either.|Anne Murray
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.’|Shangela
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.|Vera Lynn
MasterChef’s’ about real people and for real people. It’s aspirational and inspirational. There’s nothing snobbish about it.|John Torode
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.|Sanam Saeed
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.|Ann Reinking
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.|Kirk Franklin
In fact Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.|Jared Isaacman
