Inspirational Quotes

"What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Inspiration is the key to everything"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves"

Teri Garr, Actress

"Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?"

Alex Noble

"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later"

Bob Filner, Politician

"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks"

Johann Gottfried von Herder, Philosopher

"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered"

John Updike, Novelist

"The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class"

Beyonce Knowles, Musician

"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist"

Richard King, Director

"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director"

Cole Porter, Composer

"I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up"

Larry Niven, Writer

"In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!"

Judy Collins, Musician

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today"

Barry Mann, Musician

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