Top 100 Not Inspiring Quotes
#1. L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
Amy Lee
#2. I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to be a part of anything that's not inspiring or helpful to the community that I'm serving.
Russell Simmons
#3. Hey! D'you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet ... died a vegetable. That's a damn good joke. But that joke's like a Toyota Camry - reliable, not inspiring.
Christopher Titus
#4. I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me.
Katherine Locke
#5. I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#6. I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
Raf Simons
#7. I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Otto Von Bismarck
#8. Who was it?" Jared asked. "I'll kill them."
"You are not inspiring me with a desire to give you a name, Captain Murderface of the good ship Unbalanced
Sarah Rees Brennan
#9. It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
Cheryl Tiegs
#10. I know I'm not inspiring much confidence at this point, but there's something else I thought I'd bring up." She lifted her eyes to him. "I love you more than I love books.
Cynthia Hand
#11. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#12. Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human.
Roy T. Bennett
#13. Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
Muhammad Yunus
#14. The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#15. The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Umar
#16. Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.
Andy Stanley
#17. Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.
Federico Fellini
#18. Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.
Matt Shea
#19. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
Kofi Annan
#21. There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists ...
Derrick Jensen
#22. Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.
Nostradamus
#23. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.
Antony John
#24. It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
Chris Campanioni
#25. It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.
Julia Kent
#26. Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time ... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
Claude Debussy
#27. It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As I get older, I find a greater sense of self-confidence. I've learned that it's fine to not try to be anything else but myself.
Jessica Biel
#28. We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.
Matt Shea
#29. The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.
Dean Koontz
#30. English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider myself not a prisoner, but rather a valued guest of honor.
Storm Princeholm
#31. Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
Steve Maraboli
#32. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.
Jeffrey Rosen
#33. Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.
Ram Prasad Bismil
#34. Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.
Roy T. Bennett
#36. The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett
#37. The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.
Diana Nyad
#38. Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
Lee Kuan Yew
#40. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#41. You are NOT what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate.
Tony Robbins
#42. Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
Alan Watts
#43. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.
Jaycee Dugard
#44. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
Lee Kuan Yew
#45. I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.
Thuli Madonsela
#46. Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
Henry Ford
#48. I think, therefore I am ... not here.
Nhat Hanh
#49. Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.
David Maister
#52. If you're wanting me to besmirch somebody's reputation so that there would be some sort of division created out of it, I'm not going to do that ... If you're asking if I believe my opponent is a fake conservative, the answer to that question is yes, 100 percent.
Matt Shea
#53. We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#54. It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#55. I'm not just saying this because I'm in the movie, but I really would recommend 'Secretariat.' It's fun, inspiring, and it's a great movie to take your little kids, brothers, sisters, or nieces and nephews to see that actually has real people in it and not animated characters.
Kevin Connolly
#56. Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.
Miya Yamanouchi
#58. Make no mistake. This is a war on rural America ... It is chilling to watch people who joined the military to defend American citizens point rifles on American soil at American citizens and women and children. A sniper rifle is not due process.
Matt Shea
#59. Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.
Kaiden Blake
#61. Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.
Abhijit Naskar
#62. Look up and look around, and if you're not finding something inspiring, then you're probably not looking hard enough.
Sophia Amoruso
#63. The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands.
Robert Kennedy
#64. You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#65. There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known. Every member of Easy interviewed by this author for this book said something similar.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#66. Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
Richard Rogers
#68. We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
John F. Kerry
#69. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it
William J. Clinton
#71. Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.
Paul L Wachtel
#72. Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
Marilyn Monroe
#73. Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#74. Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
Christine Lagarde
#75. Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
Abraham Lincoln
#76. I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
Jaclyn Smith
#78. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.
Dalai Lama
#79. We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.
George Carlin
#80. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
Bobbi Brown
#81. I discovered Los Angeles in the late '90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.
Hedi Slimane
#82. I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'
Kenny Wormald
#83. It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
John Sexton
#84. Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.
Mitt Romney
#85. Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#86. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#87. We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
Marge Piercy
#88. Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling.
Elaina Marie
#89. There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Tom DeMarco
#90. We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? ... We make our own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and inspiring. Only he had not felt inspired. He had felt nothing at all.
Ayn Rand
#93. Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
Umar
#94. The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.
Carlos Ghosn
#95. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. Since we have to make choices in life, why not choose the good ones?
Kcat Yarza
#97. The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.
John Patitucci
#98. You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.
Roy T. Bennett
#99. The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom.
Vironika Tugaleva
#100. Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Mahatma Gandhi
