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" Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational. "

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" This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. "

Roma Downey

World

Inspirational

Journey

" It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. "

" I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle! "

Conor Maynard

Artist

Inspirational

" The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

" Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. "

" One today is worth two tomorrows. "

" The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. "

" Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. "

" When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. "

Harriet Beecher Stowe

You

Inspirational

Never Give Up

" We convince by our presence. "

" Give light and people will find the way. "

" My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood. "

Cecile McLorin Salvant

Daughter

Experience

Man

" Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. "

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Inspirational

Knowledge

Wonder

" Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. "

" Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational. "

" Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has. "

" Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. "

" We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord. "

" 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. "

" A place for everything, everything in its place. "

" We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents. "

" Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration. "

" I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. "

" I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful. "

" If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband. "

" Each day provides its own gifts. "

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

" I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses. "

" Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do. So this is why I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do. "

Cecile McLorin Salvant

Feel

Unknown

People

" I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album. "