“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 8.
“There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Secret of Efficient Expression (1911)
Alicia Garza (1981) Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter International movement
An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Ted Talks, https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_founders_of_black_lives_matter?language=en (October 2016)
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, 1.23-[6].
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“Some of the words you'll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.”
III. 26–27 (tr. Robert Fagles); Athena to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976) British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein
As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action