Inspirational Sayings

218 sayings found from the Modern era from 218 authors

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

— Charlie Chaplin Unknown, but often quoted in reference to his character
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I want to be an artist, not a sex legend.

— Marilyn Monroe 1954
Art & Creativity

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

— Audrey Hepburn Unknown
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An actor is at most a poet and at least a traffic cop.

— Marlon Brando 1972
Art & Creativity

I have always believed to write a good detective story, you must know all about detective stories.

— Agatha Christie 1950s
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1903
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.

— Alexandre Dumas 1844
Art & Creativity

I believe the children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

— Richard Pryor 1979
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The only honest art form is confession.

— Lenny Bruce 1965
Art & Creativity

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our destiny is out in the stars.

— Neil Armstrong 1994
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I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let's preserve and enhance this beauty, not destroy it!

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
Art & Creativity

Prepare yourself for the worst, but hope for the best.

— Amelia Earhart 1930s
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I have flown over oceans and continents, and I have seen the beauty of the world. But the greatest beauty of all is in the human spirit.

— Charles Lindbergh 1930s
Art & Creativity

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood.

— Ray Charles 1978
Art & Creativity

I don’t know as I want a man who is too smart.

— J.P. Morgan 1905
Art & Creativity

I believe in anything necessary to correct unjust conditions, political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

— Malcolm X 1964
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No matter what nationalities became a part of our country in the future, they would have to assimilate into the Han nationality. The nationalism our party supports is a positive nationalism. Do not forget that.

— Sun Yat-sen Approx. 1920s
Art & Creativity

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the…

— Friedrich Engels 1848
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