Inspirational Quotes for Motivation – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Aaron Copland

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Christie Todd Whitman

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Arne Jacobsen

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Ram Dass

The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.

John Crowley

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Michael Dell

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

Colleen Atwood

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

William Henry Moody

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Eric Brown

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

Margaret Anderson

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Eugen Herrigel

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

Joe Grant

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Marc Forne Molne

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Vissarion Belinsky

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Mark Burnett

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

Birch Bayh

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

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.

Sam Wood

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Alex Noble

It does make a difference what you call things.

Kate D. Wiggins

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Burt Rutan

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Hugh Prather

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

Giorgio Vasari

Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

Alfonso G. Robles

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

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.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

Patty Duke

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

Thomas Keller

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Jude Law

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Beck

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Don Johnson

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

Taylor Dayne

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Portia de Rossi

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Colin Greenwood

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Tracy Chapman

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

Daryl Hannah

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Alton Brown

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

Tracey Ullman

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Harry Shearer

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Yannick Noah

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Tom Hanks

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilhelm Steinitz