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Inspirational Quotes


"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."


"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."


"Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration."



"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."


"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."


"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."


"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"


"When the world is too much, create your own. I do it every day."


"Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later."



"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."


"Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind."


"My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight."



"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."


"The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else."


"If you speak things into existence, they will become real.."


"Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration."


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."


"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."


"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."


"Challenges prepare us for something greater! Only when it's done with love, can this greatness change us and fulfill our highest good!"


"When you can share the lessons you learnt through tears and heartache and others find life in it and are better off for it, then beauty has come out of those ashes."


"We move forward by having confidence within ourselves, with hope for a greater purpose."


"The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities."


"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."


"I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration."


"Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration."


"We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards."


"The dreams we dream today will be the light to the generation to come."


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


"Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure."


"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."


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


"I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see."


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


"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"."


"We can be the light, the lantern, the morning star in someone's life. Living as best we can with a kind and forgiving heart. Taking compassionate action. Taking the time to smile or to help someone or an animal in need can make all the difference.Living with personal integrity. Not being perfect, but doing the best we can to live our lives in such a way that guides others is more powerful than any words you could speak or write."


"Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration."


"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."


"I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role."



"One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left."



"For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."


"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."


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


"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."


"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."


"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."


"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."
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