“Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.” MenChristianityProgressMovementInspireGuidesUnfolding Author:Mark Hopkins
“Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.” MovementInspireDressesSimplicityViolentGesturesGentlenessDisrespectInvoluntaryGait Author:Honore de Balzac
“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.” ThinkingPersonsBookMightFacesCertainHouseSoundHalfSilenceStepsMovementInspireColdAspectWindowTownsStrangerRuinsEncountersMelancholyPalePeersGlancesSkeletonsDrearyDesolationStagnantMoors Book:Eugenie Grandet Source: Eugenie Grandet
“Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.” IfsMovingCommunityVisionAchieveMovementInspireCapacityStrategyHarmRebellionRebelTransformedHalfwaySomething BetterOpposing Author:Parker J. Palmer
“The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .” WayFirstsChildrenBookActionTeacherMovementInspireObservationSpontaneousMontessori Book:The Montessori Method Source: The Montessori Method
“Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.” WorldWellsDoeBeliefImaginationMovementInspireDevelopmentEssentialsPaperLibraryIntellectLastingOur LovePapersEcosystemsSustainable Development Author:George Monbiot
“Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.” PeopleWorldShouldDoeHas BeensCareChristianResponsibilityMovementCreationInspireResourcesConcernConcernedEnvironmentalCommittedDoctrineSufficientSustainabilityStewardshipVanguardEnvironmental Responsibility Author:John Stott
“I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.” ThinkingArtPastSongCoursesRightsMovementInspireCivil RightsBrownCivil Rights MovementResonance Author:Saul Williams
“I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me.” PeopleThinkingWritingFirstsPersonsI CanDreamYoungMovementInspireStartingTribesAlways ThinkingWriting MusicThinking About You Author:Janelle Monae
“In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.” MenWayIdeasCharacterFactsChristianAnimalPrinciplesMovementInspireBecomingTransformationMythologyBaroqueChristian Character Author:Camille Henrot
“Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special” CountryValuesIndividualNationsAbilitySpecialMovementInspireAspectDeterminationPerseveranceOur CountryChampionBobAspects Of LifePerseverance And Determination Author:Peter Ueberroth
“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.” PeopleMenYearsBelieveMatterUseYoungVoiceDifferencesMovementInspireFoundationIncrediblesEightToleranceCeaseYoung ManBullyingEducate Author:Dash Mihok
“I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a political movement, I hope that what I write may, in combination with the suggestions of others, cause a shift in perspective that will inspire a world-wide movement to accept the only solution to climate change. And before it's too late.” WorldWritingHumansMayPoliticalCausesAcceptingMovementInspirePerspectiveLateSolutionsClimateClimate ChangeWideCombinationToo LateSuggestionsCompetenceGloomyProspectsPolitical MovementsBefore It's Too Late Author:Philip Kitcher
“Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain, you need something to react to. To have something to react to, you need to get your emotions up and running. To get your emotions up and running, you need to have something that ... whatever direction you go in, it has to be a movement between you and the experience.” NeedsArtWarRunningOrderEmotionBrainMovementInspirePenetrate Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.” WayAgeTodaySpiritualEnergyForceChallengesReligiousEconomicMovementInspireRelatedSpheresDiverseCommerceProvokingFaith Based Author:Martin E. Marty
“The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf.” PeopleHumansWholeHuman BeingsEnvironmentMovementInspireConsciousForestsBreathingConservationBehalf Author:Ian Cohen
“You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world.” WorldWritingCommonRichPlansMysteryMovementInspireFindingsProjectsDiscoveryTasksLifetimeDepthConquerChanging The WorldCommon GoodBundlesChange YourselfPower To Change Author:Wilferd Peterson
“I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” PeopleChildrenHelpingFightingStrongWishMovementInspireCooksEmpoweringEducateObesity Author:Jamie Oliver