Inspired Quotes · Page 36

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

— Simon Sinek

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

— Gwen Stefani

I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.

— Red Gerard

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

— Alexander Wang

We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Face everyday with positive thoughts & God will do the rest for you. :)”

— Kyrell Pena

I was inspired by the way the Aussies played their cricket. It was no-holds barred. They played to win.

— Sourav Ganguly

I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

— Pat Metheny

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment…

— George Washington Carver

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and…

— Susan Sontag

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.…

— Tadashi Shoji

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world…

— Barack Obama

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what…

— Marcia Gay Harden

To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts.…

— Loreena McKennitt

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different…

— Ramin Djawadi

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy…

— Robert Parish

Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually…

— Butterfly Boucher

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine…

— Om Malik

I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact…

— Walter Russell

Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we…

— Anthony W. Ivins

There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued…

— Christina Aguilera

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,…

— Heber J. Grant

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of…

— John Waite

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

— James Dashner

I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'

— Tony Jaa

If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.

— Jaggi Vasudev

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from…

— Kat Edmonson

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

— Oswald Chambers

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

— Rachel Roy

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me…

— Mark Salling

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

— Joseph Campbell

“May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when…

— BJ the Chicago Kid

I think I am very proud that my father has inspired so many people through his work.

— Tulsi Kumar

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to…

— John Cage

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

— Trevor Paglen

“The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.”

— Paul Eluard

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

— James Earl Jones

Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.

— John Catsimatidis