Inspire Quotes - Page 9

• America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Icons, America

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

  Charles Adams

  Business, Essence, Greed

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• Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Home, Parenting, Neurosis

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

  John H. Johnson

  Mother, Strong, Hard Work

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• The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  People, Transforming, Capable

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• To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Unique, Profound

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• In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.

  Jeff Weiner

  Order, People, Deep Inside

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• I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Miscarriage, Necessary Use

  Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”

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• I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Prayer, Inspiration, Men

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• Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Humanity, Individual

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Fighting, Government

  "Lupe Fiasco calls President Obama 'Biggest Terrorist'" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. June 8, 2011.

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

  Christina Perri

  Hate, Fall, Losing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Dream, Country, Struggle

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• Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Fall, Expression, Hitting Bottom

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• You can't write if you can't relate.

  Beck

  Writing, Relate, Ifs

  Song: Loser, Album: Loser, 2006

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• Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Writing, Listening

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• Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Writing, Life Is

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• We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.

  Phil Taylor

  Winter, Generations, World

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• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Yesterday, Race, Times Like These

  Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Weakness

  "Listening to shame". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.

  Simon Sinek

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.14, Penguin

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• Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.71, Penguin

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• Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Want, Individual

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.7, Penguin

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• I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

  Alfred Doblin

  Teacher, Thinking, Magic

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