Inspiration Quotes

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter

Books are for nothing but to inspire.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
Hans Sachs

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Set Your Goals High Enough To Inspire You And Low Enough To Encourage You.

Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed. Dare to excel.
Vince Dente

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Percy Shelley

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.
Paul Brunton

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Gwendolyn Brooks

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impressions to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.
John H. Groberg

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chestówithout asking to be paid.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Inspiration: There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise, No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said ó namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.It fell to me to express it.

Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build himself without the inspiration of God, without realizing that he grows from within, not from without.
David McKay







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