Top 73 American Inspirational Quotes
#2. This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power.
P.J. Parker
#3. The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part of your training is to learn to distinguish between them, and know when to use which. (Nakoma)
Gala.J
#4. Both Obama and Romney ended up in the wrong place: the former thought American exceptionalism was no longer true and should be given up while the latter thought it was still true. Neither was willing to tell Americans that they were no longer exceptional but should try to be again.
George Packer
#5. Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
P.J. Parker
#6. My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.
John Hope Franklin
#8. Pelvic organ prolapse is not an American women's health concern, it is a global women's health pandemic.
Sherrie J. Palm
#10. Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John Galsworthy
#11. From nowhere we came; into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot Blackfoot Warrior Chief 1890
#12. Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
Lisa Eley
#13. The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
Gerald R. Ford
#14. The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
Mary Brave Bird
#15. For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision ...
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#16. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Barack Obama
#18. The medicalization of American life from birth to death is killing our souls.
Hattie Bryant
#19. Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world.
Louis Owens
#20. For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever.
Kerry D. Brackett
#21. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!
Barack Obama
#22. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
Dan Smee
#24. DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,
TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!
WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#25. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
#26. You will go. And you will live a good life with my people. But bad things will happen. They always do. And when they do, you must not blame yourself. You must enjoy life in spite of bad things.
K.B. Laugheed
#27. I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.
John Fante
#28. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Warren Buffett
#29. People believe that through the American way of life they can work together to encourage wider ownership of economic activities. In this way, they believe they can develop an economy of abundance which will provide a maximum of security and freedom.
Murray D. Lincoln
#30. The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment
Ron Pickering
#31. I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
J.R. Ortiz
#32. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#33. It suggests that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it.
Jeremy McCarter
#34. When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.
Michael Scheuer
#35. It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer!
Sofia Espinoza Alvarez
#37. I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
Richard Wright
#38. If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for the future and come together with compassion to solve problems.
Phil Mitchell
#39. We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
P.J. Parker
#40. We live in a complicated society, Bromley - one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
P.J. Parker
#41. A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
Joseph Campbell
#42. Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
Neil Gaiman
#43. For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do.
P.J. Parker
#44. Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete
Kjiva
#46. (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
I swam my brains out.
Mark Spitz
#47. American women rock on both fields: bed and on the green grass.
Santosh Kalwar
#48. Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?
The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.
Alan Moore
#49. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
P.J. Parker
#51. I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#52. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#53. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
P.J. Parker
#54. My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, and after twenty years of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice, they were getting divorced, totally broke, and deep in therapy.
David Henry Sterry
#55. When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#56. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.
Gloria Steinem
#57. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
#58. The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy
#60. The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
P.J. Parker
#62. I want them to see the magic of how
everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.
Autumn Morning Star
#63. In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
#64. Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
New York Times
#65. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
#66. We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
P.J. Parker
#67. Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed all on our behalf.
Mark W. Boyer
#69. I have never felt so alive - so free - so proud. I love my country. I love my America.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.
Monica Millner
#71. Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
Rosa Parks
#72. The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.
Marion Nestle
#73. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.
P.J. Parker
