Inspires Quotes (page 17)

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• education
• inspiration
• environment

[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing -- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Stewart Brand

• heart
• inspiration
• inspired

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? Yasunari Kawabata

• inspirational
• inspiration
• inspired

I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade. Christopher Isherwood

• writing
• purpose
• business

The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. Norman Vincent Peale

• nature
• natural beauty
• beautiful

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life. Jim Henson

• inspirational
• inspiration
• inspired

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality. John Muir

• understanding
• helpful
• dad

When you put your trust in your dad, he will feel the responsibility of that trust and try harder than ever to understand and to help. As your father, he is entitled to inspiration on your behalf. His advice to you will be the heartfelt expressions of someone who knows and loves you. Your dad wants more than anything for you to be happy and successful, so why would you not want to trust someone like that? Boys, trust your dad. M. Russell Ballard

• inspiration
• experience
• emotional

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait. Barbara Pym

• moving
• fear
• inspiration

Courage is not the absence of fear? it s inspiring others to move beyond it. Nelson Mandela

• inspirational
• inspiration
• inspired

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. Sigmund Freud

• daily
• appearance
• greatness

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays. Henry David Thoreau

• wellness
• best
• inspirational

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• inspirational
• death
• inspiration

There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave: to be close to death is to see clearly Victor Hugo

• humble
• night
• inspired

For all the tenure of humans on Earth, the night sky had been a companion and an inspiration. The stars were comforting. They seemed to demonstrate that the heavens were created for the benefit and instruction of humans. This pathetic conceit became the conventional wisdom worldwide. No culture was free of it. Some people found in the skies an aperture to the religious sensibility. Many were awestruck and humbled by the glory and scale of the cosmos. Others were stimulated to the most... Carl Sagan

• influence
• inspired
• world

The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world’s goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be. Thomas S. Monson