Inspirational Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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

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.

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.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

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.

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.

Belief creates the actual fact.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.