Inspiration Quotes

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a p...

Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without th...

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for c...

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an ...

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not...

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate t...

People always ask me"Son what does it takeTo reach out and touch your dreams?"To them I always sayAr...

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the e...

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re...

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He h...

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human...

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspir...

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., ...

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a ...

I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and ...

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contra...

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...

The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanc...

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people nev...

I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out ...

Inspiration and genius - one and the same.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perform...

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and...

The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate...

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspire...

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am fr...

Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerni...

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it...

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, i...

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make i...

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conc...

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless ...

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Simil...

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think abou...

Never judge a work of art by its defects

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand h...

There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desir...

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have a...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...

Will Smith > Quotes > Quotable Quote“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me...

One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you a...

I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that h...

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert,...

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. ...

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and ...

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old...

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things...

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only...

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be a...

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not a...

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours...

Take it easy, but take it.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more a...

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they...

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

"People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them."

"The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when n...

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

"If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can."

"The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself...

"Your past does not equal your future."

"Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions."

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standard...

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

"Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true."

"People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will fee...

"Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life."