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
My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.
— Lizz Wright
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
— Les Brown
I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.
— Lee Pearson
'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
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
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
When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
— Karen Civil
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
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
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
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
— John Muir
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
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
— Johannes Brahms
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
— Joe Bonamassa
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
— Lucy Larcom
'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.
— Linda Johnson Rice
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
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
— Lao Tzu
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
— Khalil Gibran
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
To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you're a gosh dang philosopher.
— Kat Timpf
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
— Junipero Serra
In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.
— Juan Mata
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
— John Ruskin
Ideas shape the course of history.
— John Maynard Keynes
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.
— John Cooper Clarke
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.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
— Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
— Loretta Young
You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.
— Lights
I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.
— Lee Ritenour
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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
A film like 'Dangal' is universal; though it narrates a story that happened in Punjab/Haryana, we like its inspirational story and its idea of celebrating the girl child.
— Karthi
When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.
— Julian Edelman
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
— Joyce Meyer
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
— John Wooden
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
— John Locke
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
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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
