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Quotes About Inspiration

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
~ Jim Davis
Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.
~ Brian Jacques
It's precisely the people who are considered the least 'likely' leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
~ Ai-jen Poo
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~ Winston Churchill
Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.
~ Unknown
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
~ Nitin Nohria
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
~ Peter Koestenbaum
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
~ David McCullough
Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.
~ Laurence Shames
Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
~ Kim Yuna
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
~ Peter Thiel
People follow courage, not titles.
~ Bill Johnson
If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.
~ Unknown
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
~ Stanley Kubrick
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
~ Seth Godin
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
~ Billy Graham
Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
~ Simon Sinek
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
~ Plautus