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Inspirational Quotes


"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."


"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."


"Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others, they would much rather build people up than tear them down."


"When you connect with nature, you will create yourself."


"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."


"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."


"You can create the life you wish to have."


"The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn't to overcome the difficulty."


"Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity."


"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."


"Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage."


"Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude."



"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."


"I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count."


"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."


"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."


"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."


"I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it."


"Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence."


"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."


"The human race is governed by its imagination."


"But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me."


"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."


"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."


"Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart."


"What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling."


"We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king."


"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."


"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."


"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."


"Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty. Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold."


"Positively Inspired Man of Purpose, my style is P.I.M.P.'ish."


"Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration."


"Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory, away the aeroplane shot."


"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it."


"We only live if we dream."


"The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight."


"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom."


"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."


"Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen."


"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."


"To help get your creative juices flowing, you might look online at lists of the "best taglines ever." Their branding ideas are genius and may be just the catalyst you need to activate your awesome!"


"She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly."


"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."


"Such music", he said. "I'm not religious, but if I were I would say it was like a glimpse into the mind of God. Perhaps it was and i ought to be religious. I have to keep reminding myself that they didn't create the music, they only created the instrument which could read the score. And the score was life itself. And it's all up there"."


"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."


"Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now."


"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."


"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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