Top 484 Inspired Quotes

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
Adam Hamilton
I love the ath-leisure look, but I’m also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.
Bishop Briggs
Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make ‘entertainment for everyone.’
Warren Spector
Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.
Shawn Amos
The first tape I got was Madonna’s ‘Immaculate Collection.’ I’m inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn’t have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
Lykke Li
I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.
Paul Dano
I would worry if I wasn’t coming up with ideas, if I wasn’t inspired.
Lucinda Williams
I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
John Malkovich
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Ernest Newman
I’m always inspired when there’s a robustness to the material in front of me.
Pat Metheny
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
Debby Ryan
I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.
Joyce Banda
I think one of my father’s great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women’s rights, equal justice, and they’ve passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
Caroline Kennedy
That’s always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
Jerry Cantrell
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
Janine Benyus
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
Nick Flynn
My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
Zoe Kravitz
I would be thrilled with anybody who cites my work as something that inspired them.
Rhiannon Giddens
I am humbled and inspired by the ultimate sacrifice mad

I am humbled and inspired by the ultimate sacrifice made by so many Mississippians on behalf of our nation, and the families they left behind.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
Elaine Stritch
I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.
Jill Sobule
Mr. Koons’s work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I’m always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.
Chris Benz
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I’ve inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Valerie Bertinelli
I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip’s Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the ‘Dirty Wu.’ It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella.
Reggie Lee
I’ve always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, ‘So Cold the River,’ for which the brilliant strings piece ‘Short Trip Home,’ composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.
Michael Koryta
I’m inspired every time I see a role I’d like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I’d like to tell, direct or produce.
T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
Zig Ziglar
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.
Adam Riess
I like change, like anybody. You don’t want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you’re doing the same thing.
Moon Bloodgood
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I’m inspired by Miyazaki’s films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.
Fred Seibert
Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy’s hand, and that inspired him to be president.
John Catsimatidis
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can’t even begin to understand or explain.
Joe Bonamassa
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Elihu Root
I’ll have periods when I write and periods when I don’t. But you don’t want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that’s no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it’s simply because I wasn’t that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp
I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn’t any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.
Kenny Ortega
My uncle inspired me, and it was because of him that I become a wrestler, but besides him, the one Superstar that really caught my attention growing up as a kid was ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage.
Rey Mysterio
At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn’t even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.
Rachel Roy
I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from the same village as I do and my mother used to be his teacher. I was so inspired by his success.
Eliud Kipchoge
I see a ton of theatre whenever I’m not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I’m a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I’m a big reader, too.
Sarah Steele
I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
Carol Alt
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
Jessica Lynch
I grew up watching anime, and the girls in anime have really rosy cheeks. That’s how I got inspired to do my rosy pink cheeks on TikTok. I think it’s really cute.
Bella Poarch
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
James Earl Jones
I get messages from people telling me all the time through Twitter or Instagram about how my path has inspired their path. It’s good for them, for people who have a certain amount of mental problems, suffering from depression or anxiety, being able to have someone who recognises them and helps them.
Aleister Black
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema… I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
Jacqueline Bisset
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States – a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history – which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
Ezra Taft Benson
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there’s also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.
Alfred Molina
I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get t

I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get to travel the world, I get to witness history… and I’m constantly inspired by the different amazing characters I meet along the way.
Clarissa Ward
I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I’m inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don’t do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don’t like or have no interest in.
Robert Crumb
I’m inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.
Lapo Elkann
‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ and ‘Tam Lin.’ I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: ‘What if ‘Beauty’ was a huntress?’
Sarah J. Maas
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I don’t want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.
Rinko Kikuchi
Kamal Haasan got inspired by his brief appearance in a role similar to Charlie Chaplin in ‘Punnagai Mannan’ and developed that into a full-fledged character in ‘Apoorva Sagodharargal.’
Thambi Ramaiah