Inspirational Quotes

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

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.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

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.

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.

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.

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 took over to want to succeed.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.