Inspires Quotes

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.