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I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.
— Joseph Wapner
When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.
— Cat Osterman
I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.
— Shirin Neshat
With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
— Cheryl Hayashi
I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.
— Richard DeVos
If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.
— Richard Petty
I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.
— Adam Rodriguez
Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
— Bruce Nordstrom
As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.
— Darren Flutie
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
— Dorothy Height
I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.
— Ellen Greene
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
— Walter Hagen
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
— Nancy McKeon
Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
— William P. Young
I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
— Melissa Bank
You have to respect all your competitors.
— Thorsten Heins
MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.
— Jerry Speyer
I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.
— Terry Gou
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
— Abdus Salam
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.
— Thomas Muster
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
— Amin Maalouf
Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.
— Rodney Mullen
I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.
— Shabazz Muhammad
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
— Helen Andelin
London has such an unbelievable respect for theater, where L.A. does not. You go to a play here, and the dude next to you is sleeping. In London, if you're not in your seat when it starts, they lock the door. In Los Angeles, you can stroll into school late with a cup of coffee. In London, you get your butt to class on time.
— Devin Kelley
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
— Joseph Priestley
The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.
— Kishore Chandra Deo
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
— Max Nordau
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
— Ben Lindsey
In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.
— Kurt Student
A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
— Lee Tamahori
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
— Cameron Boyce
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
— Ralph Thomas Walker
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
— Thomas Cochrane
We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.
— Timothy Dolan
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
— Fernand Braudel
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
— Jimmy Dean
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
— Swami Sivananda
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. 
— Francis of Assisi
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present. 
— Jim Rohn
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
— Steve Jobs
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
— Maya Angelou
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
— Buddha
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
— Malala Yousafzai
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
— Lucy Larcom
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
— William Shakespeare
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Warren Buffett
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
— Earl Nightingale
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
— Robin Williams
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
— Buddha
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
— Octavia E. Butler
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start. 
— Nido Qubein
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
— Audrey Hepburn
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
— John F. Kennedy
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
— Unknown
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
— Pope Paul VI
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
— Carol Burnett
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
— Muhammad Ali
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
— Paul Bryant
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
— Ronald Reagan
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
— Malala Yousafzai
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
— William Arthur Ward
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
— Tony Robbins
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
— Bruce Lee
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
— Les Brown
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
— Vince Lombardi
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
— Napoleon Hill
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.
— Skylar Grey
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
— Wilma Rudolph
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
— Alexander the Great
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
— Jim Elliot
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
— John Wooden
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
— Mary Kay Ash
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
— Plato
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The things that we love tell us what we are.
— Thomas Aquinas
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
— Rosa Parks
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
— James E. Faust
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas A. Edison
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
— John Muir
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Prayer is man's greatest power!
— W. Clement Stone
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
— Arthur Helps
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
— Steve Jobs
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
— Jack Dempsey
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
— Marcus Aurelius
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
— Tony Robbins
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
— William Allen White
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
— Thomas Merton
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
— Tony Robbins
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
— Augustus Hare
Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 
— Desmond Tutu
You change your life by changing your heart.
— Max Lucado
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
— Henry David Thoreau
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
— Leo Buscaglia
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
— Aeschylus
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
— Democritus
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
— e. e. cummings
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
— Bill Copeland
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
— Thomas Jefferson
I dwell in possibility.
— Emily Dickinson
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
— Anne Frank
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
— Hosea Ballou
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
— Morgan Freeman
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Each day provides its own gifts.
— Marcus Aurelius
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
— Gustave Flaubert
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
— Lao Tzu
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Michelangelo
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
— John Wayne
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
— Christa McAuliffe
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
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
— Michael Jordan
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
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas shape the course of history.
— John Maynard Keynes
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
— Richard L. Evans
Nothing is worth more than this day.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
— Robert H. Schuller
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
— Guru Nanak
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
— Ken Hensley
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
— William Blake
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
— Steve Sabol
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
— John Ruskin
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
— Joyce Meyer
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
— Han Suyin
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
— John Locke
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
— Tommy Douglas
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
— Arthur Young
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Corita Kent
Reach for the stars.
— Christa McAuliffe
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
— Ella Fitzgerald
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
— Neil Armstrong
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
— Lao Tzu
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
— Christopher Morley
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. 
— Amelia Barr
Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
— Ban Ki-moon
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
— Dale Carnegie
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
— Napoleon Hill
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
— Loretta Young
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
— Johannes Brahms
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
— David Cameron
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
— Charles Kettering
Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.
— Pele
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
— Victor Hugo
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
— Alan Watts
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
— Pablo Neruda
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
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
— Carrie-Anne Moss
Create each day anew.
— Morihei Ueshiba
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
— Herman Cain
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
— Jules Renard
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
— Robert Schumann
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
— Blaise Pascal
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
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
— Henry Rollins
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
— James Allen
Enthusiasm moves the world.
— Arthur Balfour
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
— Anatole France
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
— Charles Morgan
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We convince by our presence.
— Walt Whitman
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We are here to make another world.
— W. Edwards Deming
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
— Madi Diaz
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
— Andrew Wyeth
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
— Wallace Stevens
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
— Friedrich Schiller
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
— Albert Camus
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
— Bernard Williams
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
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
— Henry Van Dyke
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
— Theodore Roethke
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
— Paul J. Meyer
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
— William Morris
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
— Helen Hayes
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear it is in the mind. 
— Marlee Matlin
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
— Isaac Asimov
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
— Zane Grey
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.
— Chris Benz
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights Thou hast another time and space as well. 
— Muhammad Iqbal
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
— Snoop Dogg
Give light and people will find the way.
— Ella Baker
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
— George Lucas
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
— Fred Hammond
A place for everything, everything in its place.
— Benjamin Franklin
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
— Edward Young
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
— Emile Zola
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
— Phillips Brooks
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
— Richard Bach
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
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
— Walt Whitman
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
My mind's my kingdom.
— Francis Quarles
Whatever ought to be, can be.
— James Rouse
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
— Henry Norris Russell
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
— Marlee Matlin
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
— Junipero Serra
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
— Robin Gibb
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
— Queen Elizabeth II
'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
— Angie Stone
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
— Michael Gove
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
— Noel Gallagher
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
— Donnie Yen
Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.
— Nikki Sixx
Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.
— John Caudwell
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
My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.
— Christina Grimmie
At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.
— Nargis Fakhri
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
— Brittany Murphy
I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.
— Colin Morgan
When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.
— Prince Royce
I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
— Pierce Brosnan
I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.
— Harvey Weinstein
In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
— Smokey Robinson
What's on my playlist when I'm fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it's something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I'm fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it's a spiritual warfare for me.
— Tyron Woodley
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
We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.
— Jameela Jamil
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
— Fulton J. Sheen
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
— Jack Youngblood
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
— Robert Quillen
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I want to make this world perfect.
— Malala Yousafzai
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
— David Chipperfield
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
— Young Jeezy
I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.
— Yaya Han
There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.
— Soledad O'Brien
If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
— Lydia Lunch
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
— Wallis Simpson
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
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
— Ray Manzarek
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
— Bruce Dickinson
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
— Stephen Colbert
I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.
— Christine Teigen
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.
— Chris Brown
'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
— Laila Ali
I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.
— Maysoon Zayid
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
— Jean Paul
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
— Donald Cargill
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
— Smokey Robinson
It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.
— Arlen Specter
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
— Peter Diamandis
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
— Antony Gormley
I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
— Paloma Picasso
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
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational.
— Robert Gottlieb
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
— Jamie Johnson
'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.
— Molly Ivins
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
— Andrew Shue
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
— Mindy Kaling
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
— Harsha Bhogle
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
— Kelli O'Hara
Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G.
— Michelle Phan
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
— Amy Sedaris
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
— Russell Baker
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
— Dennis C. Blair
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
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
— Kevin Brownlow
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
— Max Weinberg
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
— Malala Yousafzai
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
— Tina Brown
I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
— R. Kelly
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
— George Michael
I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.
— Jeffrey Tambor
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
— Aretha Franklin
I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
— Nargis Fakhri
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
— Donatella Versace
I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
— Cara Delevingne
I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
— Stella Young
I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.
— Mindy Kaling
Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.
— Asif Kapadia
This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
— Action Bronson
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
— Alexander McQueen
It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'
— Rose Leslie
I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
— Daniel Boulud
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.
— Rose George
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
— Roma Downey
A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
— Neill Blomkamp
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
— Christine Pelosi
By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
— Gabby Douglas
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.
— Sasha Grey
Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
— Imran Amed
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
— Ellen Stofan
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
— Walter O'Brien
The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
— Carter Burwell
My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.
— David L. Wolper
I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.
— Reggie Watts
Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.
— Joe Klein
Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.
— Rodney Atkins
When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.
— Wesley Clark
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.
— Sophie Kinsella
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
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
— Jessica Raine
Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
— Smokey Robinson