Inspire Quotes - Page 31

• COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, People, Goal

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Sep 25, 2014

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• Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires

  Dan Eldon

  Reality, Challenges, Survival

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• A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

  Travie McCoy

  Intelligent, Hip Hop, Patterns

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• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

  Aaron Koblin

  Get Well, Technology, Elephants

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• Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

  "Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

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• Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Mean, Bravery

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.84

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• Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

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• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Artist, People

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• Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Passion, Views, Law

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• The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

  James G. Frazer

  Cheerful, Splendor, Abundance

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Talking, Lovely

  Comment to The Associated Press regarding publication of her second children's book "Noelle's Treasure Tale", October 9, 2006.

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• See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Strong, Rain, Heart

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• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.

  William James

  Struggle, Triumph, Captivity

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Animal, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.257, Modern Library

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• If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Moving, Long, Atheism

  "Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing". Book by Janet Asimov, p. 58, 2006.

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• Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, People, Barack

  "Mr. Obama Goes to Washington" by David Sirota, www.thenation.com. June 08, 2006.

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• Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Progress, Christianity

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• Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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• Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Addiction

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

  David Baldacci

  Truth, Half, Way

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.277, Pan Macmillan

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  Just because you're good in something doesn't mean you'll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Falling In Love, Mean, Opportunity

  "Tom Hiddleston Talks THE AVENGERS Aftermath, the Darker Tone, His Ownership of the Character, and More on the Set of THOR: THE DARK WORLD". Interview on the Set, collider.com. October 1, 2013.

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• When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

  Louis C. K.

  Selfish, Kids, Want

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview With Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Strong, Writing, Character

  "Kyle MacLachlan on INSIDE OUT, the Diversity of His Characters, TWIN PEAKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2015.

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• Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Stories, Originals

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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