Top 100 Inspire Me Sayings
#1. Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.
Benjamin Stone
#3. I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.
Sri Chinmoy
#4. I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
Derek Hough
#5. As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
Anne-Marie Duff
#6. I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
Elisabeth Moss
#7. I had covered wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and elsewhere, but the work had started to feel routine. I wanted to leave the journalistic herd, to find a project that would both daunt and inspire me. Facing down the Congo was just such a project.
Tim Butcher
#8. Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.
Brooke Burns
#9. Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
Elliott Yamin
#10. When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
Cary Elwes
#11. Books inspire me to create a better reality.
Daniel Vlcek
#12. The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.
Jennifer Aniston
#13. The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
Brett Dennen
#14. I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
Becky G
#15. I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.
Toni Collette
#16. NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.
Mike Lee
#17. My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
Greg Curtis
#18. Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
Nicholas Sparks
#19. I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
Paloma Faith
#20. The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan
#21. I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.
Rahki
#22. I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Anne Rice
#23. Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.
Lianne La Havas
#24. I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.
Gregory Nicotero
#25. I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
Kat Edmonson
#26. I think you're wonderful. You're the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it's incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I'm glad it's with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong.
Christina L. Barr
#27. I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#28. Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.
Domhnall Gleeson
#30. 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
#31. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#32. Author Brene Brown - her books inspire me to "dare greatly".
Megan Alexander
#33. I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.
Lori Foster
#34. Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? ... I expect it will be sit and wait.
Barbara Pym
#35. Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
Ellen Hopkins
#36. All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
Maddie Ziegler
#37. Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova
#38. I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
Taylor Swift
#39. You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.
Stephen A. Smith
#40. 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
#41. I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!
Karen Mason
#42. A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential are Terrence Malik and his naturalism, Robert Altman and his exploration of improvisation, and Judd Apatow, in terms of his comedic process.
David Gordon Green
#43. My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
Chelsea Clinton
#44. People inspire me. Everyone is such an individual and has unique stories. I'm a voyeur. I eavesdrop. Sometimes I ask questions. And sometimes people just want to tell me their stories.
Ellen Hopkins
#45. I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.
Nick Simmons
#46. All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.
Selena Gomez
#47. Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.
Jessica McNamee
#48. I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.
Whitney Houston
#49. My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Jesse Plemons
#50. The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success is dedicated to you, the writer. Authorship requires great courage, creativity, sacrifice and perseverance. You inspire me.
Mark Coker
#51. Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
Barry McGee
#52. I salute all workingwomen everywhere! You inspire me to keep going!
Megan Alexander
#53. I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that ... but that's what it did.
Edward Ruscha
#54. Many things inspire me, but at this moment in my life, my daughter is my greatest inspiration. Working hard has taken on a whole new meaning since I had her. I want to make a great life for myself so she can have a great life.
Roselyn Sanchez
#55. Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.
Joseph Zobel
#56. When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and I think I'm a better singer now because they have given me a greater emotional well to draw from.
Katie Noonan
#57. I feel like I'm an explorer, a frontiersman if you will, and I've been able to satisfy that desire in me through music. I've continued to meet people who challenge me and inspire me as friends. I don't even know how to even quantify it in words. I've been very fortunate.
Ishmael Butler
#58. My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.
Anna Mouglalis
#61. Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.
Renee Zellweger
#62. I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me.
Mpho Koaho
#63. I'm motivated by my love to share and teach. I love sharing things that inspire me, and I love connecting with people. Being a part of a community is in the millennial DNA.
Michelle Phan
#64. But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
Marc Jacobs
#65. I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
Jake Bugg
#66. For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
Betsy Byars
#67. 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. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.
Michael Schenker
#68. Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
Jaime Winstone
#69. If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.
Philippe Petit
#71. There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
Woody Allen
#72. The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#73. I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.
Noel Gallagher
#74. I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Salvador Dali
#75. I could never properly explain the bond I have with my fans, I feel like they are my family, they are just so supportive and incredibly dedicated I could never put into words how thankful I am for them. They inspire me and I want to keep doing what I'm doing because of them, it's so amazing.
Ariana Grande
#76. I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.
Alexander Wang
#78. I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.
Chris Toumazou
#79. When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
Naturi Naughton
#80. I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.
Heidi Julavits
#81. Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.
Kapil Dev
#82. The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.
Sally Kohn
#83. The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad
#84. Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.
Rodney Yee
#85. I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
Alan Palomo
#86. I work with a stylist called Devon Nuszer and a makeup artist called Aaron Barry, and between those two, I trust them implicitly. I have the things I do over and over again and that I feel safe with, but they inspire me to take risks, and I trust them so much.
Rose McIver
#87. The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
Margaret Atwood
#88. Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
Franz Grillparzer
#89. Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with - I find them inspiring for my work. I find sad emotions to be inspiring and stories of great people that kind of overcame odds.
Laura Bell Bundy
#90. I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#91. I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
Madonna Ciccone
#92. You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The
Frank Herbert
#93. People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.
Mariana Klaveno
#95. I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.
Robin Chase
#96. Give me a few minutes," he said, sounding tired but happy, "before I make good on my promises."
She circled his nipple with her finger. "That's a pretty short recovery time."
"You inspire me.
Robin Bielman
#97. I prefer to do things by myself, but I always bring in people who inspire me.
Jillian Hervey
#98. When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.
Michael Skolnik
#99. I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer
#100. I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.
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