The Most Inspiring Quotes

#1. The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

J. Frank Dobie

#3. The most inspiring leaders are those who ... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

Carmine Gallo

#4. The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Cameron Crowe

#5. I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

Peter Beinart

#6. There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours.

David Sturt

#7. I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

J.K. Rowling

#8. The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

Alexandra Adornetto

#10. The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Liya Kebede

#11. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

Edward Kennedy

#12. Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Romola Garai

#13. He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.

Jeffrey Rosen

#14. Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

Ravi Shankar

#15. I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.

Brett Dennen

#16. Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

Anne Hathaway

#17. My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

Talib Kweli

#18. I killed one! I stabbed it in the head with a parasol."
Even Nora couldn't find words for this revelation. Renfield was the first to comment. "I can't tell if that's the most inspiring thing I've ever heard of the most horrifying.

Lia Habel

#19. I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

Lapo Elkann

#20. I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

Brandi Carlile

#21. New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Taylor Momsen

#22. I've worked with some of the most inspiring and genuinely nice people.

Emma Bell

#23. The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Maira Kalman

#24. It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Jules Renard

#25. I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Peter Beinart

#26. I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

Rami Malek

#27. Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

George Vecsey

#28. Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-Genevieve Sarpong.

Genevieve Sarpong

#29. I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise

Alain De Botton

#30. Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts
some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#31. If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

James Hetfield

#32. The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Roald Dahl

#33. The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.

Susanna Phillips

#34. What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love ...

Ottessa Moshfegh

#35. 'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.

Nolan Sotillo

#36. There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

Barbara Sher

#37. 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

#38. Humor plays a key role in the playbooks of the world's most inspiring public speakers.

Carmine Gallo

#39. Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

Pico Iyer

#40. The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#41. We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?

Matt Shea

#42. Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

Eric Gibbons

#43. Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.

Stephen Dando-Collins

#44. 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

#45. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

William Manchester

#46. After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

Gia Coppola

#47. We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the most of our Todays!

Ivana Trump

#48. Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

Jeremy Lin

#49. We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.

Miya Yamanouchi

#50. Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me...

Heather James

#51. Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

Noam Chomsky

#52. Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Tavis Smiley

#53. I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Steve Guttenberg

#54. The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation, ... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

Noam Chomsky

#55. It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

Bill Murray

#56. Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Elbert Hubbard

#57. you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.

AVA.

#58. Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.

Stephen Kinzer

#59. You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

Oprah Winfrey

#60. For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Jack Ma

#61. I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

Lisa Origliasso

#62. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

Stephen Covey

#63. Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Henry Ford

#64. The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Richard Lederer

#65. The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Alison Gopnik

#66. Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

Tyler Oakley

#67. I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."

Russell Simmons

#68. Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm
in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

David W. Orr

#69. One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Nicola Cornick

#70. My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Mick Fleetwood

#71. For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.

Casey Neistat

#72. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#73. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

Sam Cawthorn

#74. I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Vince Gill

#75. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.

Nigel Barker

#76. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Fennel Hudson

#77. Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

Howie Mandel

#78. The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.

Martha Hunt

#79. At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

John Hockenberry

#80. Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Robin Lim

#81. It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

David First

#82. Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

Frank Zappa

#83. The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

#84. Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

Steve Jobs

#85. Most people have an abundance of dreams, but lack the courage to follow them. Help them find that courage by inspiring them with yours.

Steve Maraboli

#86. A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

Louis Tice

#87. It's one of the most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#88. The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

Horace Mann

#89. Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

Marc Webb

#90. I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

Carrie Brownstein

#91. I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.

Casey Neistat

#92. Oscar may be the world's most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

Abhijit Naskar

#93. Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

Abhijit Naskar

#94. The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

John Ralston Saul