Top 100 Be My Inspiration Quotes
#2. When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
Peter Facinelli
#3. The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake
#4. I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.
Doc Brown
#5. There are great people in life who give you inspiration to keep going and get through the hard times. I have been blessed to have such role models in my life. It would be a privilege if achieving my dream could inspire the next generation.
Michelle Payne
#6. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.
Marcus Samuelsson
#7. Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel good and ... I'm okay with that. My fear is that my anger will one day make me so damned successful that I'll actually be happy. And then I'll just stop.
Christopher Titus
#8. Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [ ... ] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.
Joy Harjo
#9. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force.
Elaine Maxwell
#10. As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. I live by feeling, my intuition surfaces with the radiance of the moon; and the footing I take must be walked in truth.
this world is too dark to think of it any other way.
Nikki Rowe
#12. I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work. I don't like to overexplain it.
Jeremy Scott
#13. My Dear Friend,
Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.
Miya Yamanouchi
#14. Sometimes, I marvel at the wonder
of how graceful words seem to appear
pen to paper; in others' hands
And I think to myself-
oh, how obsolete my existence is,
to be unable to do the same.
Joy Chua
#15. I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.
Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.
Susie Clevenger
#16. I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!
C. JoyBell C.
#18. My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
Shakira
#19. I have a plan, and I'm following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don't need to be afraid of the results.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#20. I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
Anderson Cooper
#21. My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.
Kenny Burrell
#22. I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.
Scot Armstrong
#23. If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.
Amy Carmichael
#24. I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words ... and it's gonna stay there.
Roy Harper
#25. I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
Clara Hughes
#26. One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light.
Joe Brooks
#27. You are the reason
For my blessings
And you will be the inspiration
Of my enlightened being
Vishwas Chavan
#28. Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.
Seungri
#29. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
#30. [I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me ... [as] inspiration.
ASAP Rocky
#31. My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.
Laurie Seidler
#32. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#33. Pacing around my apartment overwhelmed with thought. Inspiration can be a bitter-sweet combination of fantastic insanity.
12:08am - May 14, 2013
Ryan Tyler Palmer
#34. Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'
Charlie Puth
#35. If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.
Christine Upton
#36. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
Brandy Norwood
#37. Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me.
Sara Quin
#38. I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
Carol Loomis
#39. Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that.
Dan Alatorre
#40. My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.
Brenda Russell
#41. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.
Rachel G. Fox
#42. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
Selena Haskins
#43. Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Therese Of Lisieux
#44. I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name.
Carlos Wallace
#45. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.
F.K. Preston
#46. Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage.
Charlotte Eriksson
#49. The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' ... Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my time. And that's what this company is.
Mark Zuckerberg
#50. I knew in that moment that I was full of it. I didn't know who I was. I only knew my routine. I knew who I was suppose to be, who I was expected to be.
Stacie Hammond
#51. I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.
Rick Gonzalez
#52. Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. I just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one in the book.
Rose Wynters
#53. I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people.
Tony Jaa
#54. The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.
Tracy Morgan
#55. I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
Yoko Ono
#56. If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.
Joseph Eastwood
#57. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.
Tim Minchin
#58. One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.
Larry Howes
#59. My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
Sabrina Carpenter
#60. I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
Langston Hughes
#62. There was no point in living in fear of death, or questioning the reason for my existence because as far as I knew, I was not in complete control of my life, nor can any other person be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#63. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#64. I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
Hannah Kearney
#65. Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.
Paul Asay
#66. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
Mignon' Talise Padilla
#67. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
Michael J. Fox
#68. To be someone's inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.
Demi Lovato
#69. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#70. God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.
Charles Journet
#71. In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.
Laura Owens
#72. When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Saint Augustine
#73. When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.
Bernard Sumner
#74. My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.
Anne Lamott
#76. Any time I sit down at my laptop to write and I'm feeling lazy, or that I can't be bothered, or if I'm generally just lacking inspiration, I sit there and remember life with my ex-wife, and the words flow from my fingertips.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#77. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.
M.E. Vaughan
#78. There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
Samuel Gompers
#79. People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"
From the worst moments in my life.
I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.
Sandy Nathan
#80. I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".
Beth Ditto
#81. Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the story and my hand the connection between the pen and paper. With every word written, my heart finds its beat and inspiration fuels the desire to fulfill this need.
Amber M. Royse
#82. We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
Debbie Macomber
#83. Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.
J.D. Stroube
#84. To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer ... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
Elliott Yamin
#85. I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
Chris O'Dowd
#86. My normal may not be your normal, but HIS normal should be our desire.
Evinda Lepins
#87. I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#88. Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
Leonard Cohen
#89. Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.
Ron Ben-Israel
#90. Know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy graces flow out upon the world ... I desire that your heart be an abiding place of My mercy. I desire that this mercy flow out upon the whole world through your heart.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#91. I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.
Henry Rollins
#92. I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.
Avril Lavigne
#93. I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the most delicious cherries on a cake one left for later so they can be savored to the utmost.
Sahara Sanders
#94. This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
Beth Nimmo
#95. My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.
Michel Ocelot
#96. A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik
#97. My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign
Woody Allen
#98. My God, my God
May there be no end
To the sea, to the sand,
The splash of the water,
The glow of the sky,
The prayer of man
Hannah Senesh
#99. All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.
Seungri
#100. I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job.
Joyce Rachelle
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