Quotes about inspirational
inspirational motivational struggle
It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome. Hope Solo
inspirational practice missing
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
inspirational ivory piano
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
inspirational music opportunity
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky
inspirational teenage school
I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically. Iggy Pop
inspirational keys attention
We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world. Iain McGilchrist
inspirational matter
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. Hugh Walpole
inspirational courage play
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
inspirational pain world
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. Hugh Prather
inspirational mother perspective
My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger. Howie Mandel
inspirational small-acts people
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Howard Zinn
inspirational life peace
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
inspirational death running
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
inspirational taken writing
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. Howard Gardner
inspirational education mistake
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.
inspirational facts emotion
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. Howard Baker
inspirational welcome hours
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. Horace
inspirational skills weak-points
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
inspirational wisdom fall
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
inspirational motivational thinking
I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer. Hank Aaron
inspirational motivational sports
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
inspirational age ambitious
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Hannah Arendt
inspirational life inspiring
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
inspirational peace emo
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
inspirational worry classic
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
inspirational funny travel
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. Guy Clark
inspirational boys deep-inside
From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly. Guy Finley
inspirational love-is about-yourself
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
inspirational past reality
Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
inspirational finding-yourself today
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
inspirational dwelling want
Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
inspirational moving-on break-up
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
inspirational encounters kind
A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.