Inspiration Quotes

"Inspiration is found in unexpected places."

"The world is changed not by those with power but by those with vision."

"Culture teaches us that there is more than one way to be human, and that thought should both humble and empower us"

"The vocation of the Christian intellectual is to witness to the rationality of faith in a world that has grown skeptical of both."

"The greatest moral witness in the modern world is the life of holiness lived in fidelity to God."

"The future is written by those bold enough to seize it."

"History shows us what humans are capable of achieving."

"Inspiration comes to those who prepare themselves to receive it."

"Inspiration strikes those prepared to receive it."

"Inspiration comes not from above, but from within, when we open ourselves to it."

"Inspiration is the breath of the soul."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"Inspiration comes not from comfort, but from confronting our deepest challenges."

"Inspiration comes from seeing what is possible."

"Society tells us who we are; conscience tells us who we might become."

"The historian's gift is to show that the present was never inevitable."

"The past is dead only if we kill it with our indifference."

"History without passion is mere chronicle; chronicle without history is mere listing."

"History teaches us that the unthinkable has been thought, repeatedly, by ordinary people."

"The past teaches us that human possibilities are far wider than our present circumstances suggest."

"Change happens when people become conscious of their power."

"The historian's task is to enlarge the realm of human possibility."

"The task of intellectual work is to make the invisible visible."

"To change minds is to change the world."

"The task of criticism is to make visible what is hidden."

"The power of history is that it reminds us: things that seem inevitable were often contingent."

"The study of history enlarges our sense of human possibility and our sense of human tragedy."

"Progress is neither inevitable nor impossible; it depends on our choices."

"We find ourselves by losing ourselves in something greater."

"Inspiration is everywhere for those who see."