Inspirational Quotes for Motivation – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

David Guterson

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

John Hall

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

John Murray

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

Jane Elliott

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

Robert Greenwald

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

King Hussein I

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

Seth Low

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Maria Mulock

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Edward Jenner

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Greengrass

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

James Hal Cone

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

Elena Kagan

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

Alan Cranston

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Frank Harris

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

Roger Williams

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

Hugh MacDiarmid

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

Bede Griffiths

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Eric Anderson

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.

Claud-Adrian Helvetius

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.

Alberto Moravia

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.

Wilford O. Cross

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

Justin Timberlake

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Ace Frehley

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Justin Timberlake

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

Diana Ross

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

Parminder Nagra

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Gavin Rossdale

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Don Henley

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Casey Kasem

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Max Beerbohm

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Emil Zatopek

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

Graeme Murphy

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Maynard James Keenan

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Steve Guttenberg

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Kevin Eubanks

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

Ben Elton

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Juliana Hatfield

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Taylor Dayne

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Jack Youngblood

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

Kirsten Dunst

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

Miley Cyrus

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Paul Bryant

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Adriana Lima