Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Inspirational

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best—that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson (1907–99) French Film Director

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time
Leonard Bernstein (1918–90) American Composer, Conductor

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German Critic, Poet, Philosopher

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

The best way to get something done is to begin.
Unknown

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Comer Cottrell (1931–2014) American Entrepreneur

The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul we humans ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity
Christopher Fry (1907–2005) English Poet, Playwright

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected – as ready to say I do not know, if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality – to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
I wish others to live their lives, too – up to their highest, fullest, and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I’ll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be radiant – to radiate life.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
Unknown

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief… Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol—pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.
William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland (1900–90) American Composer, Pianist, Conductor

The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

I didn’t have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let’s say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
Unknown

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
Max De Pree (1924–2017) American Businessman

It is amazingly empowering to have the support of a strong, motivated, and inspirational group of people.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s no body at home.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet

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