Inspirational Quotes

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.

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.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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.

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

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.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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

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.

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.

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

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

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

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.

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

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

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.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.