Better World Quotes - Inspiration Quotes

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INSPIRATION

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-- John Quincy Adams

* "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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
--Tony Dorsett

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

The 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

"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

“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

“It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.”
-- Carl Sagan

”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

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.
- Mattie Stepanek

The artist…is the voice of the people.
-- Alice Walker

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

* Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
~ Terry Tempest Williams