Inspired Quotes

1267 Inspired quotes by 1049 unique authors

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by… — Barack Obama
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… — Jean Genet
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study… — J D Salinger
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. — Abraham Lincoln
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long… — Barbara Mertz
Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on… — Sheri L. Dew
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small… — Elie Wiesel
What is life but a series of inspired follies... — George Bernard Shaw
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. — Chuck Palahniuk
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you… — Charles Dickens
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. — James Redfield
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put… — Dean Karnazes
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their… — Ben Okri
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack… — David McCullough
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my… — George Washington Carver
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. — Ambrose Bierce
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every… — George Bernard Shaw
Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action… — Susane Colasanti
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though… — Nicholas Sparks

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