If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
I think that just being alive inspires me.
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.
I love it when someone that inspires me is not only good because of what they inspire me for, but also because they're just an amazing person.
Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and just reflects beauty inside and out. If I'm going through anything Taylor can pull me out of it in five seconds.
I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.
Eating healthy and taking care of my body and my mind really make me come alive, and seeing others doing that inspires me to stay with it. I always feel great when I do.
America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.
My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
. . . the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child