Inspiration Quotes

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-Jack London

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
-W. Clement Stone

"If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much."
-Tom Krause

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-Andre Gide

"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them."
-Tom Krause

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
-Ram Dass

"A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things."
-Sasha Azevedo

"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
-Amy Tan

"Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
-Igor Stravinsky

"The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel."
-Marie Osmond

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

"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

"The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him."
-Clay Aiken

"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three."
-Robert Motherwell

"To work is to pray."
-John Singer Sargent

"Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom."
-Don Williams, Jr.

"Now, bring me that horizon."
-Johnny Depp

"I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!"
-Sasha Azevedo

"I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them."
-Sasha Azevedo

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
-Frank Tibolt

"Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence."
-Vanna Bonta

"I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day."
-Brenda Ueland

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."
-Brendan Francis

"Life must go on; I forget just why."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
-Pablo Picasso