Quotes About Inspiration

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Inspired by the success of others"

— Unknown

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves"

— Tyron Edwards

"As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us."

— Faranciso Gucciardini

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood."

— Plutarch

"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another' fame."

— Baltasar Gracian

"The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men."

— Charles H Fowler

"Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master."

— Ben Johnson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

— John Quincy Adams

"People with growth mind-set find lessons and inspiration in the success of others as a result, they reach ever higher levels of achievement. All this gives them a greater sense of free will."

— Carol Dweck

"Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical moment in their lives."

— Carol Dweck

"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go."

— Bernard Malamud

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of other?"

— Voltaire

"The right role model can be very inspirational."

— John Cook

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

— Oliver Goldsmith

"When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves."

— Steve Maraboli

"The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ' who is worthy of emulation."

— Paul D Shafer