Inspirational Quotes

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
– Smokey Robinson
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
– Wallis Simpson
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
– Joseph Campbell
Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.
– Rodney Atkins
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
– Thomas Merton
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
– Jack Youngblood
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
– Amy Sedaris
Belief creates the actual fact.
– William James
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
– Donald Cargill
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
– Mindy Kaling
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
– James Allen
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
– Steve Berry
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
– George Lucas
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
– Arthur C. Clarke
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
– Adriana Trigiani
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
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
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
– Cheryl James
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
– Russell Baker
I view art as an inspirational tool.
– Thomas Kincade
I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
– Rosie O'Donnell
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
– Brittany Murphy
I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
– Michael D. Higgins
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
– Andrew Shue
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
– David Cameron
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
– Harry Seidler
'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
– Angie Stone