Top 252 Inspirational Quotes

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Christa McAuliffe
There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.
Soledad O’Brien
A lot of America is kind of done. People have been maki

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
Neill Blomkamp
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
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
John Wooden
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Audrey Hepburn
In my experience, I have learned that there is rarely the perfect man for the perfect job, but Reagan was born to play the role of president. He was an inspirational leader when the country really needed it.
Tim Matheson
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Jules Renard
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
In fact, I wouldn’t really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
Smokey Robinson
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in ’82, ’83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped.
Chuck Schuldiner
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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Justin Kan
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
I want to make this world perfect.
Malala Yousafzai
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great
When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
Andrew Lincoln
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
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they’re pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It’s very calculated.
Chris Benz
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
James E. Faust
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Laila Ali
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
Harsha Bhogle
When Bill Clinton ran in ’92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.
Wesley Clark
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
Morihei Ueshiba
When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe ‘Corazon Sin Cara’ would never had been made. It’s a very inspirational story.
Prince Royce
I have a Children’s Charity in Cuckfield, West Sussex, which helps young children affected by cerebral palsy and associated disorders. The perseverance these young people display every day is inspirational.
Vera Lynn
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of stor

Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.
James Haven
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Marlee Matlin
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Phillips Brooks
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it’s also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
Bruce Dickinson
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
‘Can You See’ is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It’s a very inspirational song.
Ally Brooke
My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.
Max Boot
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
Fred Hammond
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
If someone says ‘grunge’ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
Lydia Lunch
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
I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
Robert Trujillo
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Donatella Versace
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
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.
Ray Manzarek
‘Get along, go along’ is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash ’em in for your home state? No, I’d say we could ask for more than that from our senators.
Molly Ivins
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Malala Yousafzai
It’s inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.
Arlen Specter
Watching my family work so hard has been so inspirational, and I think I really got their work ethic.
Chloe Kim
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
I’m very fond of the British cinema. I’m a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he’s a great role model.
Steven Bauer
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Richard L. Evans
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
I love people who Instagram story themselves running and they’ll tag me or they’ll send me a message and they’ll be like, ‘Wow this is so motivational and so inspirational.’
Andi Dorfman
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
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad Iqbal
Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
Cheryl Crawford