Top 100 Inspired People Quotes
#1. Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.
Barack Obama
#2. But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
Marco Rubio
#3. The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
Billy Graham
#4. Inspired people also have a stronger drive to master their work, but are less competitive.
Carolyn Gregoire
#5. I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.
Jorja Fox
#6. My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
Jackie Evancho
#7. Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.
Paul Brunton
#9. Successful people are inspired people; they are unwilling to accept the status quo.
Asa Don Brown
#10. Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.
Richard Branson
#11. As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.
Madonna Ciccone
#12. For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
Feist
#13. Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.
Bob Iger
#14. I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.
Raul Castillo
#15. I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.
Adam Rodriguez
#16. I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer
#17. Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.
Big Sean
#18. I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.
Sasha Alexander
#19. Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
Jason Alexander
#20. People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
Chelsea Clinton
#21. I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.
Skylar Astin
#22. Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
Halsey
#23. My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad
#24. Jodi Orgill Brown is inspired by people who live fulfilled lives in spite of their struggles. She loves spending time with her muses,
Jodi Orgill Brown
#25. I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#26. If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a listening perspective, there's just something in their playing that I'm inspired by.
Sam Amidon
#27. And I want to thank Bernie Sanders. Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. You've put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong.
Hillary Clinton
#28. There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
Michael P. Anderson
#29. I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.
Gillian Zinser
#30. I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics,
Justin Trudeau
#31. I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.
Gustav Ejstes
#32. I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.
Shaun Sipos
#33. I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
Scout Niblett
#34. Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete
but a maker is what people are going to want to be.
Will.i.am
#35. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
Sameh Elsayed
#36. I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
Lawrence Bender
#37. When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?
Rinko Kikuchi
#38. A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#39. Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
L. David Marquet
#40. If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
Carol Ann Duffy
#41. I would just like to leave this big, floating rock having inspired somebody, having made a difference. It doesn't mean I have to be a huge megastar. I would like to entertain people. I love to do that.
Nicholas Brendon
#42. A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
Benazir Bhutto
#43. My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
Mary Gordon
#44. I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.
Jimmy Buffett
#45. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
Tony Bennett
#46. Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead.
Kevin Allen
#47. Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.
Robin Sharma
#48. I'm inspired by my faith and all the different people around me.
Laura Bush
#49. I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God's voice is heard and His people obey Him
John Stott
#50. People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.
Lynn Schusterman
#51. Don't idolize anyone if you can. You know, be inspired by people, certainly, but don't idolize people ... Because they'll let you down.
Greg Behrendt
#52. In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.
Mao Zedong
#53. People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
John Cage
#54. We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.
Madonna Ciccone
#55. I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
Tim Robbins
#56. I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.
Duncan Roy
#57. I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and be inspired by both the setting and the people associated with it.
Nicola Cornick
#58. Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
Ian K. Smith
#59. America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson
#60. People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.
Common
#61. To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.
Loreena McKennitt
#62. People cannot inspire others unless and until they are inspired themselves.
Carmine Gallo
#63. I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#64. I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though.
Logan Lerman
#66. Our struggle has inspired oppressed people the world over, because if former slaves can make the most powerful nation face itself, there's a chance for everyone else. In a twist, our rage becomes hope for others.
Mychal Denzel Smith
#67. Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.
Mick Jones
#68. If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
Rob Morrow
#69. As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.
Luther Burbank
#70. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.
Big Sean
#72. There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.
Meir Soloveichik
#73. I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real ... That way ends up being very healing with people.
Taya Kyle
#74. People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.
Lance Secretan
#75. Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
Arlo Guthrie
#76. I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.
Fauja Singh
#77. I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.
Kevin Gates
#78. There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#79. People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.
Tony Robbins
#80. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.
Joseph Mawle
#81. People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.
Bruce Van Horn
#82. People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
James Young
#83. I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.
Sebastian Coe
#84. I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.
Katherine Dunham
#85. I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.
Anthony Jeselnik
#86. What's usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I'm inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary life.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#87. In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp
#88. Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.
Scott Bakula
#89. We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.
Vaughn J. Featherstone
#90. Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.
Delia Smith
#91. I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
Marcus Samuelsson
#92. 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
#93. I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.
Danny Brown
#94. I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.
Tyler Perry
#95. I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me ... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.
Shaun Tan
#96. So, it's really about modeling it and letting people know you are an inspired person, a person who is in spirit, and then those forces that Carl Jung called synchronicity begin to show up and, lo and behold, the universe provides for you.
Wayne Dyer
#97. A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Gloria Steinem
#98. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.
Thomas Leonard
#99. I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.
Wiz Khalifa
#100. The people were taught that the record was inspired, and therefore true. They were not taught that it was true, and therefore inspired.
Robert G. Ingersoll
