Inspirational Messages of Hope

“First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.” - Amos Bronson Alcott

“God created music as a common language for all men.  It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects.  It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.” - Kahlil Gibran

“I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught,  “If you always say no to the first temptation, you will not have to worry if you will be able to say no to the second one.”” - Harold G. Hillam

“Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings—admiration or pity.” - Anatole France 

“Inspiration:  There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise,       No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies       Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes.” -  unknown

More Inspirational Messages

Inspirational messages have a beautiful quality of making us feel good.  These messages take many forms and styles but they all have one powerful thing in common - they inspire us to do better.  Daily exposure to inspirational messages can have a profound and beneficial long term effect on out thinking and well-being.  Browse these inspirational messages and find one that speaks to you and share it with your loved ones.  

“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” -  Aristotle

“FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.” - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions . . .” -  Aristotle

“For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre          None but the noblest passions to inspire,          Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,          One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.” - Lord Lyttleton

“For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.” -  Aristotle

“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.” -  Aristotle

“Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.   Inspire your whole force with the right spirit of service; encourage every sign of the true spirit.   So display and advertise wares that customers shall buy with understanding.   Treat them as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy.   Give them all that can be given fairly, on the principle that to him that giveth shall be given.   Remember always that the recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten.   Then your business will prosper by a natural process.” - H. Gordon Selfridge

“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.” - Eric Temple Bell

“Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens?   How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered?  True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . .   To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.” - Mirabel Osler

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” -  Aristotle

“I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.” - Dame Edith Sitwell

“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said — namely that I inspired the nation.  Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.  It fell to me to express it.” - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.” - Peter DeVries

“If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings.  Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.” - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

“If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?” - Pope Pius XII

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” -  Aristotle

“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.” -  Aristotle

“In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.” -  Aristotle

“In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest—without asking to be paid.” - Chinua Achebe

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal; equals revolt in order that they may be superior.” -  Aristotle