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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Success, Experience, Character

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Earth, Perhaps

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Good

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society, Solitude, Instructed

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking

History, Science, May

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Made, Mankind

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy

Freedom, America, Religious

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama

Success, Respect, School

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Evil, Dream

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

Life, Men, Death

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton

Wait, Next, Excited

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
Dwight L. Moody

Bible, Inspires

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce

Won, Behind, Material

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love, Friendship, Beauty

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

Understand, Sound, Achieved

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

Beautiful, Reason, Madness

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
Jim Carrey

Life, Try, Story

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Channing Tatum

Crazy, Sex, Song

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana

Almost, Condition, Brief

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Hope, Whatever

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
Shaun White

Beauty, Music, Put

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson

Greed, Sacrifice, America

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer

Two, Friends, Soul

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble

Peace, Nature, Good

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Mike Krzyzewski

Life, Mom, Person

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
Taylor Swift

Great, Help, Whatever

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.
Jimmy Buffett

Age, Keep, Matter

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Adele

Family, Time, Down

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
Herman Cain

Before, Succeed, Motivation

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