Inspire Quotations | Page 3

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

What they've been able to do this year is great for basketball. Most teams don't get a chance to experience what they've been able to experience. In this tournament, they were able to inspire a lot of people. There was no resentment on our team for feeling like they got all the attention or we got slighted.

What a great story to inspire our children of today. Not only can you be a resident of Union City and go on to win a Nobel Prize, but you shouldn't be defeated by the failing of a subject.

We felt it was important to give a platform to young women in their 20s and 30s, to raise their voices and inspire them to leadership. It's really their world.

What's kind of neat is they're honoring Walter Chrysler with this and we're honoring Henry Ford, two former pioneers. We're trying to inspire the pioneers of today.

We're hoping that last year's playoff game will inspire these guys to work hard. Our goal is to be one of the three teams to go to the playoffs from our (Skyline) league. They're motivated.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Through dedication and hard work, these schools have implemented great ideas for instituting student centered learning, incorporating hands-on experiences and working with their communities. By highlighting successful schools, we hope to inspire others and bring about improved learning for all children.

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Ultimately, this is the type of situation where I can play my best football and inspire the people around me. Don't tell me that what the San Diego Chargers did last year -- or what the Rams did in 1999 -- two teams won't do next year. And we could definitely be one of those teams.

Ultimately, our goal is for children and adults to understand that all of us have something meaningful to contribute to American democracy. We've built the Freedom Museum to play a role in the lives of our children and inspire a life-long commitment to civic engagement.

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Life is about timing.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

Constraint inspires creativity

Hangout with people who respect you. And people who inspire you.

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I could never properly explain the bond I have with my fans, I feel like they are my family, they are just so supportive and incredibly dedicated I could never put into words how thankful I am for them. They inspire me and I want to keep doing what I'm doing because of them, it's so amazing.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.

Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

My fans firstly [inspire me]. They make me want to be a better person and really motivate me when times get tough. Also Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and, oddly enough, hubcaps.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.