I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
— Gabrielle Aplin
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
— Friedrich Schiller
My mind's my kingdom.
— Francis Quarles
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
— Emile Zola
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
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
— Earl Nightingale
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.
— Dustin Clare
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
— Donald Cargill
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
— Desmond Tutu
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
— Democritus
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
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
— Damien Rice
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Corita Kent
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
— George Michael
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
— Francis of Assisi
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
— Emmet Fox
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
— Ellen Stofan
Give light and people will find the way.
— Ella Baker
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
— Edward Young
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
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
— Donnie Yen
I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.
— Don Everly
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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 wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.
— Daniel Lyons
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
— Dale Carnegie
I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!
— Conor Maynard
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
— George Lucas
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
— Garry Hynes
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
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
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I dwell in possibility.
— Emily Dickinson
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
Light tomorrow with today!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— Edith Wharton
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
— Donatella Versace
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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
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
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
We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality.
— Curtis Mayfield
