Most Inspiring Quotes

• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Photography, Nature

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• The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

  Michael Lewis

  Bible, Winning, Roots

  "Moneyball". Book by Michael Lewis, June 17, 2003.

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• Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

  Vera Rubin

  Uplifting, Science, Demand

  "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.

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• In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Believe, Inspiration

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Giving, Night Time

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• I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Science, Ideas

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• Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

  Jeremy Lin

  Inspiration, Thinking, Impact

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Mean, Son

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• He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.

  George Brett

  Spring, Play, Careers

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

  Tom Gjelten

  Leader, Century, Castro

  "Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies At Age 90". Interview with Scott Simon, kaxe.org. November 26, 2016.

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• Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic or dull' or 'visionary or numbers-orientated,' but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I.

  Robert I. Sutton

  Leadership, Years, Careers

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• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Inspiring, White, Water

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Ive worked with some of the most inspiring and genuinely nice people.

  Emma Bell

  Nice, People, Nice People

  "Discovery: Emma Bell". Interview magazine interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2011.

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• New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

  Taylor Momsen

  New York, Home, Cities

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• The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

  Aaron Scharf

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Moving, Men, World

  Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Top Down, Government, Self

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

  Peter Beinart

  Memories, Struggle, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

  Peter Beinart

  Struggle, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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