Inspirational Quotes

“I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.”

— Reggie Watts

“Books are challenging and inspirational to me.”

— Amy Sedaris

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”

— Joyce Meyer

“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.”

— Pope Paul VI

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

— Martin Luther

“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”

— Carol Ann Duffy

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.”

— R. Kelly

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”

— Meister Eckhart

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

— Audre Lorde