Inspire Quotes - Page 16

• I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.

  R. T. Kendall

  Heart, People, Desire

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• Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

  Edward Burne-Jones

  Beautiful, Failing, Lifts

  Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1906). “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones”

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• Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others.

  John Wooden

  Dedication, Energy, Enjoyment

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• Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

  Jeff Corwin

  Fear, Believe, Fate

  Jeff Corwin (2009). “100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species”, p.15, Rodale

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• It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Nature, Brain

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Infidelity, World, Enthusiasm

  "Ranke's History of the Popes" by Thomas B. Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", October, 1840.

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• I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

  Edward Jenner

  Becoming, Inquiry, Keep Moving Forward

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• True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Attitude, Discovery

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.15, Whitaker House

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• The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Two, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3228, Modern Library

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• The beauty of balance is that I can do it all and not feel bad about my choices, because every moment is an opportunity to start all over again

  Jorge M. Perez

  Opportunity, Choices, Balance

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• My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

  William Shirley

  People, Purpose, Keep Moving Forward

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• I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Generations, Records, Want

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• If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

  Richard Miller

  Jobs, Procrastination, Want

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• The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Wall, Sides

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• We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

  King Hussein I

  Real, Believe, People

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• If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

  Pope Pius XII

  Work, Men, Sobriety

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• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

  Sonny Perdue

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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• Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Dream, Hard Work

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2013

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• We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Today, Tomorrow

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2011

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• Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

  Richard Lloyd

  Team, Games, Might

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• The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

  George Santayana

  Confidence, Quality, Admiration

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• The artist...is the voice of the people.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Art, Voice

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• The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Mean, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2012

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• Grind Hard, Shine Hard.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Shining, Grind

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Creativity, Circles

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