inspirational
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘inspirational’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“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
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“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…
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“In fact, I wouldn’t really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.” -Smokey Robinson
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“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…
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“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
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“Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that’s all.” -Harry Seidler
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.” -Jack Youngblood
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“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
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“My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.” -Taylor Dayne
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.” -Cheryl Crawford
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“The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.” -Carter Burwell
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I view art as an inspirational tool.” -Thomas Kincade
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“To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential… With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.” -Snoop Dogg
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“Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.” -Peter Diamandis
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.” -Adriana Trigiani
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“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
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“I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.” -R. Kelly
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“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
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“Books are challenging and inspirational to me.” -Amy Sedaris
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“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” -Bernard Williams
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“Think with your whole body.” -Taisen Deshimaru
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“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.” -Jean Paul
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“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
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“Our ideals are our better selves.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“Ideas shape the course of history.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“Let each man exercise the art he knows.” -Aristophanes
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“I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.” -Zane Grey
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“I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.” -Andrew Shue
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“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
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“One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker – an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That’s what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I…
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“‘Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.” -Angie Stone
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“‘Star Wars’ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.” -George Lucas
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“Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn’t.” -Alexander McQueen
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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” -John Muir
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“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.” -Pope Paul VI
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” -Pablo Neruda
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“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” -Audre Lorde
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“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.” -Emile Zola
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“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” -Hosea Ballou
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“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
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“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” -Morgan Freeman
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“The authentic self is the soul made visible.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“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
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“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.” -Ben Okri
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“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
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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” -Richard Bach
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“When deeds speak, words are nothing.” -Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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“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
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“Give light and people will find the way.” -Ella Baker
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“And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.” -Donald Cargill
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“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
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“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.” -Wallis Simpson
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“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.” -Junipero Serra
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“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
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“You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” -Alan Watts
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“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.” -Tony Robbins
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“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” -Robert H. Schuller
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“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
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“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.” -Michael Jackson
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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” -Edith Wharton
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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.” -Henry Rollins
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“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Warren Buffett
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“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” -Anne Frank
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“You change your life by changing your heart.” -Max Lucado
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“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” -Arthur Young
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“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” -Babe Ruth
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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” -Vincent McNabb
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“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” -Joyce Meyer
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” -Muhammad Ali
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“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.” -Thomas Merton
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha
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“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.” -Pope John XXIII
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“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.” -Nido Qubein
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“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.” -Jim Elliot
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” -Democritus
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“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” -Swami Sivananda
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” -Andre Gide
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“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis
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“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.” -Bill Copeland
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“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” -Joseph Campbell
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” -Martin Luther
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.” -Jim Rohn
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