Inspiring Quotes

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Khalil Gibran

Time, Face, Changed

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Teacher, Learn, Desire

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

Best, Insecurity, Self

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Great, Power

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Teacher, Learn, Desire

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.
Marco Rubio

Change, Hope, Future

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Fun, Again

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
Alanis Morissette

Music, Anger, Moving

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
Jenna Elfman

Time, Women, Character

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl Lagerfeld

Mind, Career, Done

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
Miranda Lambert

Successful, Character, Someone

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
John Podhoretz

Future, American, While

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.
John Boehner

Time, America, Soldiers

There's so many inspiring people out there.
John Mayer

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

Good, Future, Political

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.
Jon Meacham

Life, Religion, Politics

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
Cheryl Tiegs

Important, Old, Exercise

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Jonathan Sacks

Meet, Among, Privilege

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks

Poetry, Hard, Find

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
Marc Jacobs

Great, Woman, Thought

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Orlando Bloom

Work, Business, Career

I chase after inspiring stories.
Vera Farmiga

After, Stories, Chase

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.
Curtis Stone

Change, Positive, Find

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Otto von Bismarck

Three, Seen, Sight

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.
Michael Sheen

Life, Find, Meaningful

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
Beth Ditto

Love, Mom, Christian

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.
Alison Sweeney

Change, Health, Best

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
Alison Sweeney

Time, Good, Business

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth

Good, Important, Sacrifice

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
Don Johnson

Matter, Material, Motivates

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