Quotes About Inspirational

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

If a villain is someone whose motivations we understand but whose methods we find abhorrent, a hero is someone whose motivations we understand and whose methods we find inspirational.

Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

My book is basically a love letter to America.

If everything could be like 'Forrest Gump,' I'd be happy.

I suppose he was being rewarded so richly because his messages were inspirational. My talks tend to be more disincentivizing, which, I have noticed, pays less.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger.

I grew up with Tagore and nobody ever expresses the emotion of love like he did and he understood women so well. He is the perfect man everybody dreams of, including me.

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

A guy like James Brown has walked the walk, talked the talk. I can't disrespect James Brown in any kind of way. In my household, the adults tell you where to get off at.

I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.

I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great.

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?

I could never see Jeff Hardy as a bad guy, because I just want to hug him. He's an awesome person and super multi-talented.

How do you explain a person like Asha Bhosle? A star or a super star or just someone from the Gods.

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

I am most certainly not rich. But I am a man who is intrinsically lazy. And I'm more than happy to put a piece of cheese on a rice cake and call that dinner.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

Jesu's walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band's 2009 album 'Infinity' has its bleak moments, but that album's single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it's over.