107 Quotes Found
"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management."
"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."
"I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you."
"A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are."
"I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album."
"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."
"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."
"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career."
"Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from."
"I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies."
"I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me."
"Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world."
"I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
"In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album."
"I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa."
"Books are challenging and inspirational to me."
"The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive."
"I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person."
"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."
"Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God."
"President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today."
"I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?"
"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God."
"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."
"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."
"Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big."
"To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick."
"I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk."
"I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people."
"I wanted to do something inspirational for my children."
"Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't."
"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."
"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."
"It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile."
"The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing."
"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
"Our ideals are our better selves."
"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
"Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee."
"Think with your whole body."
"The authentic self is the soul made visible."
"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."
"We convince by our presence."
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."
"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
"For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat."
"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."
"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see."
"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."
"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."
"Give light and people will find the way."
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
"When deeds speak, words are nothing."
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it."
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."
"Enthusiasm moves the world."
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
"Belief creates the actual fact."
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
"A place for everything, everything in its place."
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
"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?"
"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
"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."
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start."
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."