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"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
"I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth"
"For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element."
"NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change"
"When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire."
"We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness."
"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement."
"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."
"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void."
"My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives."
"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire."
"But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so."
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
"There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us."
"Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing."
"It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God."
"What inspires me is the universe."
"People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary."
"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."