Quotes and Sayings about Inspiring
"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Inspiring, Sight)
"I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Work, Business, Career, Heroes, Inspiring)
"Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring."
- John Boehner
(Related: Time, America, Inspiring, Soldiers)
"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Being, Inspiring)
"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Change, Environment, Inspiring)
"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting."
- Melanie Chisholm
(Related: Experience, Freedom, Inspiring)
"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Hope, Compassion, Generosity, Importance, Inspiring)
"The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against."
- John Crowley
(Related: Difficulties, Inspiring, Want)
"But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me."
- Taylor Dayne
(Related: Inspiring, Voice)
"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Women, Time, Thought, Character, Inspiring, Television)
"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Work, Criticism, Inspiring)
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: People, Man, Respect)
"So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring."
- Bela Fleck
(Related: Music, Inspiring)
"I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Family, Friends, Inspiring, Kids, Want)
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Time, Inspiring)
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Friend)
"Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom."
- Paul Greengrass
(Related: Wisdom, Inspiring)
"I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: People, Actors, Inspiring)
"I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Experience, Wife, Performance, Inspiring, Talk)
"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Poetry, Inspiring, Physics)
"I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Positive, Feeling, Inspiring, Struggle)
"It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Inspiring)
"You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Day, Fighting, Inspiring)
"Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician."
- Ken Hill
(Related: Art, Music, Inspiring)
"I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Anxiety, Day, Insecurity, Inspiring, Overcoming, Self, Shyness)
"Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Thought, Dress, Inspiring, Woman)
"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
- Don Johnson
(Related: Inspiring)
"The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring."
- Casey Kasem
(Related: Success, Heart, Inspiring, Letters)
"We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Science, Inspiring, Reward, School, Students, Teachers)
"I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring."
- Carole King
(Related: Energy, Inspiring, Listening)
"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Books, Inspiring)
"The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war."
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Related: War, Cause, Fact, Forget, May, Talk)
"Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them."
- Alex Lowe
(Related: Family, Friends, Inspiring, Passion, Value)
"And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read."
- Albert Maltz
(Related: Body, Fact, Freedom, Inspiring, Literature, Man, Socialism, Will)
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Desire, Inspiring)
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Desire, Inspiring)
"In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring."
- Mary Stuart Masterson
(Related: Work, Doctors, Inspiring, Order, Passion, Pretty)
"But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again."
- Alanis Morissette
(Related: Life, Purpose, Fame, Fun, Inspiring)
"I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring."
- Mira Nair
(Related: Inspiring, Question, Want)
"Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: People, Inspiring, Moon, Race, Thinking)
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Music)
"You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring."
- Robert Reich
(Related: People)
"I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic."
- Natasha Richardson
(Related: Work, Father, Daughter, People, Being, Inspiring, Work ethic)
"The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks."
- Ernest Thompson Seton
(Related: Banks, Inspiring, Right, Water)
"It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual."
- John Sexton
(Related: Experience, People, Inspiring)
"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."
- Carly Simon
(Related: Inspiring)
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
- Herbert Simon
(Related: Nothing, World)
"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
- Dodie Smith
(Related: Inspiring)
"Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year."
- Hailee Steinfeld
(Related: Mom, Time, Acting, Inspiring, Old, Study, Years)
"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
- Wilhelm Steinitz
(Related: Thought, Chess, Evil, Inspiring)
"With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?"
- Adlai Stevenson
(Related: Life, Purpose, Vision, Temple, America, Fire, Inspiring, Singing, World)
"It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout."
- Cheryl Tiegs
(Related: Exercise, Inspiring, Old, Right)
"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Idea, Being, Teenagers, Today)
"When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere."
- Dean Ween
(Related: Being, First, Inspiring)