Top 414 Inspiring Quotes

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.
Henry Rollins
It’s become a lot bigger than just winning championships. It’s about inspiring hopefully millions at some point in my career.
Jordan Burroughs
It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on ‘Top Chef.’
Curtis Stone
Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
Naeem Khan
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it’s shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it’s a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It’s truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
Noam Chomsky
Leonardo DiCaprio I find very inspiring… He’s my idol. I absolutely love Leonardo DiCaprio. Christian Bale, obviously, being a British actor and going from ‘Empire of the Sun.’ Now he’s Batman.
Will Poulter
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Mitch Albom
We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audiences would truly have an alternative to what Hollywood puts out. Pure Flix produces faith and family films, so the audience is the entire family.
David A. R. White
I design for the inspiring, stylish women I meet every day. I try not to look around or be distracted by what other people are creating. I make jewelry that I want to keep for years to come and I really love what I do!
Jennifer Meyer
I love Agassi – I really followed him a lot when I was a teenager and remember when guys like him and Michael Chang were just unstoppable. He was really inspiring. Every match was so dramatic and exciting. The guy played with a lot of heart.
Andy Samberg
When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
Laura Esquivel
My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I’ve always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.
Jessica Lowndes
I think to do anything out of one’s comfort zone, there has to be some aspect of it that feels inspiring and challenging in a positive way.
James Newton Howard
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that’s not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
John Sexton
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Jonathan Sacks
My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.
Tim Hunt
I will comprehensively review the education system with my team to create a stable, caring, and inspiring environment for students, parents, teachers, and principals.
Carrie Lam
It’s been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.
Snoh Aalegra
So it doesn’t have to be happy music to be inspiring.
Bela Fleck
When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.
Lilly Singh
Black, white, Chinese, it don’t matter – I’ve been told by multiple people that I’m very inspiring to them, and it makes them want to achieve whatever they can achieve.
Young M.A
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Ken Hill
My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I’m delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it’s inspiring. You learn so much that other people don’t get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
Natasha Richardson
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.
Max von Sydow
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It’s kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It’s a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
Alan Rickman
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it’s a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
Kate Voegele
To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.
Wil Wheaton
We didn’t want to just be a cover group, we wanted to do our music, to be a band. Once we were able to do it, it was a little scary, but it was also something inspiring – something new, fresh for us to get into. It was amazing to see the reaction of our fans.
Avi Kaplan
I really like writing for specific projects. It’s a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you’re writing to. It’s very inspiring.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with ‘House of Cards’ and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn’t happened there yet.
Henry Selick
I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it’s more inspiring to move someone who doesn’t know anything about music but has a feel.
Joe Satriani
It’s always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
Anne-Marie
Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.
Khoudia Diop
There’s nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.
David Cassidy
I used to see Michael Vaughan play at the club and then to watch him captain England was inspiring.
Joe Root
Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
Andy Dunn
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It’s constantly stimulating, it’s like a slap in the face.
Carter Burwell
The Democratic Party has had a real problem with recruitment because the party too often looks at just who’s next in line in the party to run rather than in finding inspiring new leaders.
Seth Moulton
My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.
Nyle DiMarco
We’ve worked with Special Olympics Florida before, and I had so much fun doing that. It was really inspiring to meet all the athletes.
Bayley
I’m constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It’s unfiltered and completely inspiring.
David Duchovny
An award, to me, means a bonus. It’s not that an actor works for an award. I don’t work for an award. But, when you get an award, it is encouraging and inspiring and reminds you that you need to do well.
Radhika Pandit
There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That’s just encouraging and inspiring.
Blake Lively
Any conversation I have with anybody that’s real is always revealing and inspiring.
Spike Jonze
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
Kenneth Branagh
'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but ins

‘Freaky Ali’ is not a heavy film. It’s a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Murakami’s ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.
Virgil Abloh
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
William Hague