Inspired Quotes - Page 28

• Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

  Johann Lamont

  Country, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire

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• Let us open the doors to the Spirit, let ourselves be guided by him, and allow God's constant help to make us new men and women, inspired by the love of God which the Holy Spirit bestows on us! How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person! How beautiful!

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, School, Home

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.23, SPCK

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• Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.

  Lady Gaga

  Powerful, Artist, Knowing

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• The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

  Mary Blakely

  Years, Twenties, Next

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the goal of all mission: to bring Christ to others. Not just a theory or a way of life inspired by Christ, but the gift of his very person. Anyone who has not shared the truth of love with his brothers and sisters has not yet given enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Brother, Heart

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• The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and lifestyle.

  Anuj

  Character, People, Quality

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• The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Life Lesson, Jake, Lessons

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• Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

  Mark Twain

  Bridges, Cities, America

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• People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

  Stephen Covey

  Father, Believe, Animal

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.450, Mango Media Inc.

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• PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Failing, Pity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.

  Renzo Rosso

  Inspiration, Book, Japan

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Song, Jobs, People

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• Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

  Jane Green

  Writing, Creativity, Way

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• For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of ​​transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Climbing, Ideas

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• Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.

  Jeffrey Smart

  Art, Moments, Ability

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• I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Hard Work, Ideas

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• Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Opportunity, Parent

  Benjamin Spock (1994). “A better world for our children: rebuilding American family values”, Natl Pr Books

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• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

  Quentin Bryce

  Girl, Education, Country

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• Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you going to tell everybody who followed you, who you've inspired? What are you going to say? I was scared. That's the truth. I was just scared, and I didn't know what to do.

  Manti Te'o

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Te'o says he 'didn't lie' publicly, but was 'scared' to tell full story of girlfriend hoax" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

  Loretta Lynn

  Hillbilly

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• Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING

  Michael Chekhov

  Real, Acting, Happenings

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• The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.

  Tory Burch

  Queens, Character, Garden

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Sep 12, 2013

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• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  Nate Berkus

  Couple, Cozy, Classic

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