Quotes About Inspired

#1. The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.

Ken Follett

#2. We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.

Kathleen Collins

#3. I think I've inspired a lot of people, and I'm one, if I get a letter and someone's in serious shape, I'll call them. I relate to these people.

Ron Santo

#4. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Aron Ralston

#5. They sang that song which distills all the suffering and the hope of Africa; that song which had inspired and comforted so many, "Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika," God Bless Africa, give her life, watch over her children.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

Yann Martel

#7. Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

R. Kelly

#8. I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Jenny Eclair

#9. Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.

Wayne Dyer

#10. I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.

Corey Taylor

#11. The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Chet Baker

#12. I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

Jon Foreman

#13. Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain.

Ronald Reagan

#15. I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.

Roma Downey

#16. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#17. The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.

Edward T. Welch

#18. I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.

Corin Tucker

#19. The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.

R.C. Sproul

#20. I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Meryl Streep

#21. I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Denise Morrison

#22. Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Allan Bloom

#23. When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

Aly Raisman

#24. Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. I hope your dreams have come or will come true. Or you feel inspired to down tools on what you wrongly thought was making you happy and follow the real dream.

Miranda Hart

#26. One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

Michael Moorcock

#27. This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

Artur Davis

#28. I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

Corin Tucker

#29. A movement only exists when people are inspired to move,
to do something, to make the cause their own.

Simon Sinek

#30. I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

Ellie Goulding

#31. I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

Halston Sage

#32. I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

Ana Ivanovic

#33. A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.

Rhonda Byrne

#35. Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. "Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler" Goodreads blog

Kopman-Owens

#36. I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Maynard James Keenan

#37. Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Bruce R. McConkie

#38. If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes ... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

Summer Sanders

#39. I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.

Meg Whitman

#40. The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

Matisyahu

#41. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#42. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper

#43. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

Erik Johansson

#44. I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me ... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

Marcia Gay Harden

#45. I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Francisco Costa

#46. My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

Doc Brown

#47. My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.

Lori Earley

#48. I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

James Dashner

#49. 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Michelle Malkin

#50. I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

Simon Sinek

#51. There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

Julian Ovenden

#52. The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#53. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'

Sarah J. Maas

#54. I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come, but money doesn't always come with great art. At the end of the day, it's about being satisfied with yourself as a human being. It's important to me to try to make that happen.

Scott Cohen

#55. Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

Drake

#56. I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

Damon Runyon

#57. The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

Steven Klein

#58. Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#59. Choose To Be Inspired.

Joe Rogan

#60. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

Andy Weir

#61. My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

Jeff Koons

#62. The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united in
the ostensible abandonment of virtue.

Albert Camus

#63. I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody

#64. There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Bruce Feiler

#65. We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

James Redfield

#66. She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption.

Boris Pasternak

#67. Inspired moments are everywhere, regardless if we see them, seek them or are in a space to take them in or not.

Elaina Marie

#68. Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.

Roy Hargrove

#69. The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Nana Awere Damoah

#70. The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber

#71. People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Daphne Zuniga

#72. The embryo of my second novel, Bobby's Diner, came to life because of my husband's ex-wives. Let's just say, they inspired the writing.

Susan Wingate

#73. If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

#74. 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

#75. An inspired stroke of a pen can save or damn the world

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#76. Scriptures are not to be pitted against the Spirit. Scripture can be understood only through the same Spirit whereby it is given.31 The Scriptures, inspired by the Spirit, form the written rule by which the Spirit thereafter leads us into all truth.32

Thomas C. Oden

#77. More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

James Earl Jones

#78. Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

RZA

#79. Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.

Del Suggs

#80. The Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money ... It is a book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.

Jane Goodall

#81. Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

#82. I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

Jay Gordon

#83. All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Cynthia Voigt

#84. I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

Julie Klassen

#85. John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.

Kasey Keller

#86. Criticism is poisonous...to others and to self..Ever heard of the statue of a CRITIC being erected for others to get inspired by ?? ...not in the history of mankind !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#87. Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

Brady Udall

#88. Muhammad preached his farewell sermon to the Muslim community. He reminded them to deal justly with one another, to treat women kindly, and to abandon the blood feuds and vendettas inspired by the spirit of jahiliyyah. Muslim must never fight against Muslim.

Karen Armstrong

#89. Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#90. Tears were coursing down the faces of Kennedy's moonstruck recruits. John Kennedy had inspired us with his vision. One by one, we left work to grieve in private. The flag was at half-staff in our hearts.

Gene Kranz

#91. We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired.

Elaina Marie

#92. Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

Robin Sharma

#93. Unless the consequence is 'death by firing squad' in my opinion, you do have a choice, and when you choose to do something as opposed to have to do it, you feel so much more motivated and inspired to do it.

Malti Bhojwani

#94. I'm inspired by my faith and all the different people around me.

Laura Bush

#95. I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

Tatiana Maslany

#96. Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoning, but not over our goals, which are identical.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#97. I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

Michael Skolnik

#98. Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger's heart?

Edmund White

#99. I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Wanda Jackson

#100. It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.

Ella Eyre