Inspirational Quotes

"Inspiration is the key to everything"

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Robin Gibb, Musician

"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

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

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"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

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

Birch Bayh, Politician

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

Barry Mann, Musician

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

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"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

"This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments"

Marc Newson, Designer

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