- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
- Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill
- The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
- A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce Meyer
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
- I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
- When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
- I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
- I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
Robert Schumann
- The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
- Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
- Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
- I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
- I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings
- The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Marlee Matlin
- Reach for the stars.
Christa McAuliffe
- Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Phillips Brooks
- God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
- A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
- We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins
- I want to make this world perfect.
Malala Yousafzai
- I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
Andrew Shue
- Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
- Brand is not a product, that’s for sure; it’s not one item. It’s an idea, it’s a theory, it’s a meaning, it’s how you carry yourself. It’s aspirational, it’s inspirational.
Kevin Plank
- When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.
Julian Edelman
- Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
Marianne Williamson
- ‘Star Wars’ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.
George Lucas
- The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.
Anita Sarkeesian
- You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It’s time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That’s why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.
Atif Aslam
- You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
Adriana Trigiani
- Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
Ben Okri
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
- Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI
- A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
Steve Berry
- Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
Donnie Yen
- I look up to a strong woman; maybe that’s why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
Taylor Kinney
- I thought ‘Moulin Rouge’ was inspirational, and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ I loved.
Pierce Brosnan
- I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
Rosie O’Donnell