Inspiration Quotes

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i...

I know a woman who gets tattoos all the time. She acquires new tattoos the way I might buy a new pai...

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day...

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...

Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust onl...

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make...

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who ...

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn...

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart...

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. ...

The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire cr...

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to...

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the...

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or mere...

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making ...

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowle...

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capab...

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you mu...

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leape...

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and ...

You are a guest of nature - behave.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an ex...

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with w...

What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a ...

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a ...

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is...

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'...

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of b...

It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of...

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. ...

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases...

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in th...

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is w...

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually...

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose st...

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

Good men do the most harm.

...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer...

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having di...

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

The world is but a canvas for our imagination

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temp...

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the sec...

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there ...

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but wh...

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-no...

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflec...

‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse your...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at a...

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless ...

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

And empty words are evil.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a c...

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi...

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy g...

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieve...

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary lif...

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower ...

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.