Inspire Quotes - Page 35

• Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Superstitions, Deities

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• There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Sacrifice, Names

  Aung San Suu Kyi (2010). “Letters From Burma”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Moving, Giving, Spirit

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Gay, Reality, Doubt

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• Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Religious, Religion, Duty

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• in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Eye, Hands

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• Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Leadership, Moving, Difficult Situations

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• In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Political, Opinion

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• I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Artist, Challenges, World

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2013.

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• We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

  J. G. Holland

  Future, Made, Discontent

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• Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.

  Guity Novin

  Creativity, Artist, Space

  Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

  Betsy Byars

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

  Leighton Meester

  Fashion, Book, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Aug 26, 2012

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• By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Agreement, People

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• Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, Way, Used

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

  Signe Baumane

  Can Do, I Can

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

  Tyler Perry

  Life Lesson, People, Laughing

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

  Hilary Swank

  Drama, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

  Stephen Fry

  Afterlife, People, Everyday

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• You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

  Pauly Shore

  Real, Comedian, Comedy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

  Patti Smith

  Light, Tree, Littles

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

  John Angell James

  Example, Holiness, Guides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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