The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
— Asma Jahangir
I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley.
— Ashley Graham
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
— Anne Frank
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
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
— Andrew Wyeth
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
— Andre Gide
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
— Anais Nin
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
— Amelia Barr
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
— Alexander the Great
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
— Alan Watts
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
— Aeschylus
Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.
— Adnan Sami
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
— Arthur Young
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.
— Arlen Specter
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
Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.
— Anne Murray
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
'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
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
— Andrew Shue
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
— Anatole France
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
— Amy Sedaris
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
— Alexander McQueen
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
— Alan Alda
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
— Adam Beach
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
— Ashthon Jones
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
Enthusiasm moves the world.
— Arthur Balfour
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Aristotle
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
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
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.
— Andris Nelsons
When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
— Andrew Lincoln
Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
— Anand Mahindra
Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.
— Ally Brooke
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
— Albert Camus
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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
This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
— Action Bronson
