Inspiration Quotes

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.

You must come again when you have less time.

I send you Love and all Green Lights

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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

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

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

There's more to life than love.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

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

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

Chop your own path. Get off the car track

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life’s journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.