Inspire
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If
your actions inspire others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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"I want to live in a world where people
become famous because of their work for peace
and justice and care. I want the famous to be
inspiring; their lives an example of what every
human being has it in them to do — act from
love!"
-- Patch
Adams
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Talk
and write in a way that encourages the mutual
exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people
birthing their own ideas.
-- Grace Lee Boggs
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"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods
to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar
ones: honest search for understanding, education,
organization, action ... and the kind of commitment
that will persist despite the temptations of
disillusionment, despite many failures and only
limited successes, inspired by the hope of a
brighter future."
-- Noam Chomsky
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"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome
the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest
search for understanding, education, organization, action
that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators
or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and
the kind of commitment that will persist despite the
temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures
and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of
a brighter future."
-- Noam Chomsky
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"Reverence
for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity
for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity
for inspired response, a respect for the intricate
universe of individual life. It is the supreme
awareness of awareness itself."
-- Norman
Cousins
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Yes,
I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation
to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality
but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would
you think me if I were capable of seating myself
at a table and gorging myself with food and saw
about me the children of my fellow beings starving
to death. "
-- Eugene V. Debs
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To
succeed... you need to find something to hold on
to, something to motivate you, something to inspire
you.
--Tony Dorsett |
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“To
help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope,
and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem
defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though
not easy, is the work of divine man”
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically
measurable by its depth of thought…If it awaken
you to think, if it lift you from your feet with
a great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to
be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;
if the pages instruct you not, they will die like
flies in the hour. The way to speak and write what
shall not go out of fashion is, to speak and write
sincerely. The argument which has not power to reach
my own practice, I may well doubt, will fail to
reach yours. But take Sidney's maxim:- -"Look in
thy heart, and write." He that writes to himself
writes to an eternal public. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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“A
leader has the vision and conviction that a dream
can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy
to get it done.”
-- Ralph
Nader
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"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
Russell
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“It's
better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.”
-- Carl Sagan
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”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into
flame by another human being. Each of us owes
deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this
light.”
-- Albert Schweitzer
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If
only we could have a wealth of literature and
music and art that would inspire and encourage
us and show us how wonderful peace on earth could
be, perhaps we would be more excited about working
together to create a better world. If you are
a writer, artist, musician or filmmaker, and you
dream of peace on earth, please use your creativity
to help create a better world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Utopian
visions inspire hope in action for a better world.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
We
can help unite our communities and inspire them
to be excited about the goal of building a culture
of peace by celebrating together.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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The
creative spirit is one of the most powerful driving
forces in human history. Creativity in the arts
can inspire new insights and understanding for
generations. Inventive creativity has helped transform
our society time and time again, helping to make
life better for countless lives. Creativity helps
bring meaning to one's life through unique self-expression.
When focused on uplifting humanity, creativity
can help to create a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world. How will you use your creativity to help
create a better world?
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Imagine
a world where the global economy
is based on what's best for all earth's communities.
Where beauty and art and the media inspire
The best in all, and lift our spirits higher.
Imagine a world where science and technology
Serve only to bring out the best in humanity.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Although
the Internet can be a maze of information overload,
this social networking tool is also being used
to inspire and organize an emerging global movement
for a better world. --
Robert Alan Silverstein
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Keep
all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes
to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire
hope and build from the past, which can bridge to
the future.
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The
mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher
inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward
“Learn
and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you
can; enrich and inspire all you can.”
-- William Arthur Ward
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Despair
shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations
shared create collaboration, collaboration creates
community, and community inspires social change.
~
Terry Tempest
Williams
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