“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
Jimi Hendrix · Purple Haze, 1967
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Inspiration Quotes
191 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“You have to give people something to dream on.”
Jimi Hendrix
“We are here. We are waiting.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“You may lose your faith in us, but never in yourselves.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 2009
“Autobots, transform and roll out!”
Optimus Prime · The Transformers, 1984 cartoon
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Don't let nobody tell you what you can't do.”
Rod Wave
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
Reed Markham
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
Epicurus
“Progress consists of deploying knowledge to allow all of humankind to flourish in the same way that each of us seeks to flourish.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Socrates · attributed
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
Socrates · attributed
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
Socrates · attributed
