Inspiration Sayings and Quotes

Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Eubanks


My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston


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


Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams
Trudi Canavan


It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis


The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau


I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey


Inspiration and genius
one and the same.
Victor Hugo


Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Bo Bennett


Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou


Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda


Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt


My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou


Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank


I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore


When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph


Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman


Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere


Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther


When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe


Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth


Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs


If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle


Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton


Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell


I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson


From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus


I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse


Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams


It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot


Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Arthur Helps


The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia


A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen


Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms


I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O’Keeffe


What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir


I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White


We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins


Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach


Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller


Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!
Paul J. Meyer


Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes


I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert


The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering


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