Inspirational Quotes (681 Quotes)

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

The fund also will assure that if for any reason the wind turbine needs to come down, there will be money there to allow for that. The donor has really set this up so there will be no cost to the high school and just savings, along with an opportunity for education and inspiration.

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.

We wanted to bring some of the Big Easy to the Big Apple to help the rebuilding effort. What better way than to help the New Orleans Crafts Guild which is giving students the skills and the inspiration to make a difference. In my family, we have three permanently displaced relatives, one destroyed house, one destroyed car and another damaged house. But that's good news compared to the suffering of so many others.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

She's the whole reason I got into college. She never let me accept anything less than my best work. She even called me at home when I was sick. She's an inspiration.

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Throughout the years, whenever darkness has touched my life, it has been a strong faith in God and a great network of friends that have carried me through the troubled waters and given me the strength to carry on. Your presence here today is an inspiration to me as it symbolizes the friendship and love we have shared throughout the years.

Basically, with Born Innocent we gave ourselves the target of completing it in eight months. We've done the same thing with Restless Soul. In the past we've spent too long waiting for the inspiration to come and worrying about repeating ourselves.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Cynics build no bridges they make no discoveries no gaps are spanned by them. Cynics may pride themselves in being realistic in their approach, but progress and the onward march of Christian civilization demand an inspiration and motivation that cynicism never affords. If we want progress we must take the forward look.

We're in the business of inspiring imaginative play. Creating a play structure that will build years of good memories to children, while maintaining its spot as a source of pride for parents is a dynamic Rainbow has enjoyed for twenty years.

It's been a strong source of inspiration for the divers. We usually dive in zero visibility and very bad conditions. We know if the family who suffered that loss is able to rise above that to help us help people better, it gives us a better way to focus on what we need to do to help more people.

Hoop has just been an inspiration, especially for myself. He always has a positive attitude. I think a lot of guys who get upset if they're not playing a lot can really learn from that.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

He's one of the good guys. He's always been one of the good guys. I think in that sense he's been an inspiration to us all.

I think there's a lot of romantics out there who use the Internet to get inspiration. People are at a loss for words.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

They react to the music. The artistry, the inspiration of the musicianship comes first.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage. Inspire your whole force with the right spirit of service encourage every sign of the true spirit. So display and advertise wares that customers shall buy with understanding. Treat them as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly, on the principle that to him that giveth shall be given. Remember always that the recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten. Then your business will prosper by a natural process.

If inspiration does not find you today, routine will.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength. (John

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood.

I wanted to celebrate the movies and to include great movie houses and screens. So Roy went back to the classic ornate movie houses for his inspiration, which, I think, is superbly reflected in the final design.

Ultimately, it's about a guy who's afraid to take a risk. Our hope is that Andy will be an inspiration to others. He's like the Lance Armstrong of virgins.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

It was truly an amazing sight and an inspiration for our work in the lab.

The dearest possession a man has is his family. In the divine assurance that family ties may transcend the boundaries of death, and may continue throughout endless ages of eternity, I find supreme consolation and inspiration.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

People say it's kind of uplifting to them. Inspiring and uplifting, ... I hope I can continue to make that happen.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

I do not prize the word 'cheap.' It is not a word of hope, nor a word of cheer. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty. The signal of distress. Cheep merchandise means cheap men, cheap men means a cheap country.

What's intriguing is that part of the new masculinity, or M-ness, is man's recognition that he needs a woman. This realization comes, ironically, during the Era of Female Independence, a time when man can be replaced by boy toys, female lovers, abstinence, and even vibrators, ... Whereas men still need women, their traditional source of comfort and inspiration, women are increasingly less likely to feel the same about men. And that's changing everything about the rules of the game.

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good

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.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Chris's commitment and attitude in gaining success for Gloucestershire Tourism is inspiring.

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists.