Inspirational people whose quotes inspire you

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I've been given a project at work, which I have to brief our staff on.

The client has asked me to ask my staff including me, the above so they can decide who they want on the project.... im not included in this however they want me to be included for staff moral

However honestly I cannot think of someone who truly inspires me, their is a Turkish actor whose motos on life hit home, but they don't inspire me, as I believe his motos are what makes us decent human beings.

*there

Maya Angelou - everything she ever said! Including:
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
And
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

This is corporate BS though, if they’re judging people on the quotes they like - most people will go and look up ‘inspirational quotes’ rather than say they’re actually inspired by Cheryl Cole!

exactly Sowhat, I've even done googled it, but it all feels false, Maya Angela is one of the 1st of inspirational quotes on google

it also does not have to be someone famous, it can be ANYONE but they have to have had a quote that gave you inspiration.

sorry I'm trying to watch Jack Ryan and do this at the same time.......

I genuinely love Maya Angelou, and have read everything she ever wrote so can blab away about her happily if questioned. Make sure you’re staff try to be real about it, in case they get the 3rd degree about why so and so is inspirational. They’ll all have someone even if it turns out to be Freddy bloody flintoff or similar...

What was interesting was how Maya harshly judged the White prostitutes, or dancers. She just saw colour and because they were White, she saw them as having choices. Whereas non educated poor white Women were in no better position than the Black Women.

I've always been a fan of Jackie Chan. His quotes aren't great, but his philosophy on everything is.

There's very little that I find actually inspirational, especially in terms of famous quotes, which mostly smack a bit of cliche in my eyes.

I do quite like Eleanor Roosevelt's "nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent" though.

Most of my favourite quotes come from Malcolm Tucker.

Eleanor Roosevelt has some magnificent ones though, such as the aforementioned one re inferiority and "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

As does Liz Taylor. "Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together" has got me through some dark times.
Also love Annie Oakley "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either".

Sowhat, I admire the woman, however it feels like cheating... trying not to be cliche however also need my inspirational someone to also be someone who actually does inspire me...

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Not a bad way to live your life, I think. Apart from that, lots of Oscar Wilde, which I suspect isn't very corporate

Mind you, as a way of selecting a team, it seems a bit like a cross between an exercise thought up by David Brent, and The Apprentice

Although I suppose Wilde is better than a) Mae West and b) Dorothy Parker.

Can anyone tell that I don't work in the corporate world ?

Go for Charles Bukowski.

Oh I’m inspired by anything Anne Frank said... there’s loads of quotes online. She was a remarkable young lady.

Chris Hadfield (the first astronaut to make extensive use of social media showing us the earth from space) has written a book. In it he says
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.”

It’s a bit wordy but I keep thinking of the importance of every simple decision - since reading it I’ve assessed decisions based on how it fits with who I want to be.

Not the Maya Angelou one - it's so cliched now.

If you really want to mess with their heads, you can have my two, one from a character on Buffy and the other from Angel...

Whistler: Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Angel: Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.

Justin Bieber:
Swag, swag, swag on you,
Chillin by the fire while we eating fondue

Sorry that was a silly joke. The most inspirational quote ever is, of course, SuperHans:

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people.

If you can dream it, you can do it

Walt Disney

I genuinely love Maya Angelou, and have read everything she ever wrote so can blab away about her happily if questioned.

So you know that that first quotation you gave, about how people make you feel, isn't actually hers at all? - it's one of the many that are wrongly attributed to her.

'Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life' - Terry Pratchett.