Inspirational Words to Inspire

“Man matures through work  Which inspires him to difficult good.” - Pope John Paul II

“Only poetry inspires poetry.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.” -  unknown

“Memory is the scribe of the soul.” -  Aristotle

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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Inspirational words have been passed down by generations and through texts and scribes that have lasting inspirational change.  Read these wonderful inspirational words of wisdom to inspire yourself and others.

“It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.” -  Aristotle

“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.  The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.” - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

“It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.” -  Aristotle

“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.” -  Aristotle

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” -  Aristotle

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.  There is none such.   It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream.   I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.” -  Aristotle

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.” -  Aristotle

“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.” -  Aristotle

“Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men.  The people who can catch hold of men’s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.” - Henry Eyring

“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” -  Aristotle

“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.” -  Aristotle

“Many managers know how to get things done through people, to turn people into tools, but not how to direct them, inspire them or motivate them.  Leadership provides a scenario to the people they're leading.  People are willing to work their butts off if you give them an objective, show them how to reach it, and prove that you mean it through action and consistency.” - John Music

“Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.” -  Aristotle

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” -  Aristotle

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” -  Aristotle

“No great genius is without an admixture of madness.” -  Aristotle

“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.” -  Aristotle

“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.” -  Aristotle

“Nothing inspires confidence in a business man sooner than punctuality, nor is there any habit which sooner saps his reputation than that of being always behind time.” - W. Mathews

“Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.” -  Aristotle

“Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.” -  Aristotle

“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

“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.” -  Aristotle

“Oh, wondrous power! how little understood,  Entrusted to the mother’s mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good,  Inspire a West, or train a Washington.” - Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale

“One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word.  And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.” - Saint Thomas Aquinas

“OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.” - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

“People are not lazy.  They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them.” - Anthony (Tony) Robbins

“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.” -  Aristotle

“PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.” - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” -  Aristotle

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” -  Aristotle

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” -  Aristotle

“Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” -  Aristotle

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself — Power and glory, or happiness.” -  Aristotle

“Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.” -  Aristotle

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” -  Aristotle

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” -  Aristotle

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” -  Aristotle

“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.” -  Aristotle

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” -  Aristotle

“The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.” -  Aristotle

“The boss drives his men; the leader coaches them.  The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.  The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.  The boss says "I"; the leader "we."  The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.  The boss says "go"; the leader says "let's go!"” - Gordon Selfridge

“The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.” -  Aristotle

“The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.” -  Aristotle