Best Inspirational Quotes by famous personalities

Enthusiasm moves the world.

- Arthur Balfour

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Our ideals are our better selves.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

- Pope Paul VI

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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

- Bill Copeland

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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And now this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

- Donald Cargill

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'Star Wars' is fun its exciting its inspirational and people respond to that. It's what they want.

- George Lucas

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

- Emile Zola

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We convince by our presence.

- Walt Whitman

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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

- Charles Morgan

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

- Hosea Ballou

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I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

- Sylvester Stallone

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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

- Morgan Freeman

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The authentic self is the soul made visible.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Think with your whole body.

- Taisen Deshimaru

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Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

- Jean Paul

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

- Bernard Williams

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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

- Zane Grey

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The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

- Michael Gove

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It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

- Arlen Specter

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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

- Herman Cain

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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

- Alexander McQueen

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I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

- Harvey Weinstein

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I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

- Mindy Kaling

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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

- Lynda Barry

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To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

- Snoop Dogg

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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

- Peter Diamandis

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Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

- Steve Sabol

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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

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So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

- Smokey Robinson

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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

- Stephen Colbert

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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

- Anna Deavere Smith

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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

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I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

- Max Weinberg

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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

- R. Kelly

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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

- Carter Burwell

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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

- Amy Sedaris

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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

- Candice Swanepoel

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In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

- Smokey Robinson

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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

- Carol Ann Duffy

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Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

- Nigel Lythgoe

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I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

- Reggie Watts

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I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

- James Iha

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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

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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

- Jack Youngblood

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This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

- Roma Downey

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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

- Taylor Dayne

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I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

- Lee Ritenour

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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

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I love inspirational R&ampB, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

- Ashthon Jones

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There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

- Boris Vallejo

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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

- Cheryl Crawford

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

- Aristotle Onassis

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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

- Joseph Campbell

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

- Martin Luther

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

- Muhammad Ali

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I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

- Pope John XXIII

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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

- Nido Qubein

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

- Ronald Reagan

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

- Thomas Jefferson

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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

- Thomas Merton

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

- Leo Buscaglia

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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

- Swami Sivananda

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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

- Andre Gide

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

- Henry Rollins

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

- Anne Frank

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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

- Amelia Barr

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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

- Fulton J. Sheen

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

- Augustus Hare

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

- Benjamin Franklin

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

- Joyce Meyer

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With self-discipline most anything is possible.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

- Victor Hugo

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Belief creates the actual fact.

- William James

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

- Plato

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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

- Tony Robbins

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

- Thomas Fuller

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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

- Han Suyin

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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

- Michael Jackson

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

- Amelia Barr

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

- Albert Camus

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

- Ben Okri

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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

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Give light and people will find the way.

- Ella Baker

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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

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

- Mark Hopkins

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