Quotes About Inspiration

We strive for greatness.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.

We all have to strive to learn what motivates us, learn from our experiences, and what feels right and what feels wrong. There's a strong component over the years to having formal processes that help to identify lessons that need to be learned, and actions that need to be taken. In other words, how do you find the big idea?

I strive to destroy fear and judgment that once stifled me.

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

I think 'destined for greatness,' for me, is digging deep inside and knowing that I will always strive to be the best person I can possibly be and effect change in a positive way.

As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

Quite simply, my friends inspire me to strive.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth. That's what I strive for in my music. I want to create something that's like a longform statement.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.