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Short Inspirational Quotes

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

George Santayana

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Ang Lee

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

James Larkin

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Inspirational Quotes About Life

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Stephen Gardiner

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

Major Taylor

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Ben Nicholas

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Bryant H. McGill

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Diane Sawyer

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Jimmy Webb

Positive Inspirational Quotes

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Michael K. Simpson

More Inspirational Quotes

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Tadao Ando

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Wangari Maathai

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

George Lucas

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Wislawa Szymborska

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

Birch Bayh

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

John Kricfalusi

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Paracelsus

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Otto von Bismarck

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

Leon Uris

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Lafcadio Hearn

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

Nicholas Sparks

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

John Updike

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

Kendrick Meek

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Edward Hall

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Julie Taymor

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Elizabeth II

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Amy Tan

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

John Hume

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

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.

Bob Filner

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Larry Niven

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

Robert Reich

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Ken Hill

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Georg Brandes

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

John Sexton

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

James Cameron

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Maria Mitchell

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