Inspiration quotes

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

People want to feel hopeful.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Imagination decides everything.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.