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When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

Pierce Brosnan

Actor · Irish · b. 1953

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Teri Garr

Actress · American · b. 1944

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Shue

Actor · American · b. 1967

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

Eileen Caddy

Celebrity · English · 1917 – 2006

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Enrique Iglesias

Musician · Spanish · b. 1975

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Joan Armatrading

Musician · St. Kittsian · b. 1950

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Cynthia Weil

Musician · American · b. 1940

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Amy Sedaris

Actress · American · b. 1961

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Loretta Young

Actress · American · 1913 – 2000

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Clay Aiken

Musician · American · b. 1978

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Cecilia Bartoli

Musician · Italian · b. 1966

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

Alex Lowe

Athlete · American

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Barry Mann

Musician · American · b. 1939

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Billy Joel

Musician · American · b. 1949

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

Karolina Kurkova

Model · Czechoslovakian · b. 1984

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Actress · American · b. 1966

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

Mindy Cohn

Actress · American · b. 1966

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Val Kilmer

Actor · American · b. 1959

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

Rob Morrow

Actor · American · b. 1962

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Peter Tosh

Musician · Jamaican · 1944 – 1987

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

Musician · American · b. 1981

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

Actress · American · 1902 – 1986

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Willie Dixon

Musician · American · 1915 – 1992

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

Musician · American · 1918 – 1996

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Patti Davis

Celebrity · American · b. 1952

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Susan Sarandon

Actress · American · b. 1946

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

Jackie Jackson

Musician · American · b. 1951

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

Joan Armatrading

Musician · St. Kittsian · b. 1950

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

Natalie Cole

Musician · American · b. 1950

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

Madeleine Stowe

Actress · American · b. 1958

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.

Smokey Robinson

Musician · American · b. 1940

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Athlete · American · 1921 – 1989

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

Anastacia

Musician · American · b. 1973

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Olivier Martinez

Actor · French · b. 1966

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Alanis Morissette

Musician · Canadian · b. 1974

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Fay Godwin

Photographer · British · 1931 – 2005

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Cat Stevens

Musician · British · b. 1948

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.

Smokey Robinson

Musician · American · b. 1940

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

Julian Lennon

Musician · English · b. 1963

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

Michael Schenker

Musician · German · b. 1955

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

Neve Campbell

Actress · Canadian · b. 1973

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Jackie DeShannon

Musician · American · b. 1944

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

Deborah Cox

Musician · Canadian · b. 1973

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

David Strathairn

Actor · American · b. 1949

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

Wyclef Jean

Musician · American · b. 1972

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Donny Osmond

Musician · American · b. 1957

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Bela Fleck

Musician · American · b. 1958

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Daryl Hannah

Actress · American · b. 1960

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