Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.
Samuel Butler
Never tire, never falter, and never fail.
George Walker Bush
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjld
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjld
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
Wystan Hugh Auden
I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay.
Vanna Bonta
If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.
James Branch Cabell
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.
Paulo Coelho
Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.
Ronald Dean Coleman
No coach ever stops learning. That's what makes the great coaches great. They strive to learn more every day and they never stop asking questions.
Thomas Aaron (Tom) Crean