Inspiration Quotes
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The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
Bhagat Puran Singh
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I always saw what the girls were doing, the supermodels, and they were my inspiration.
David Gandy
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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma Bombeck
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream.
Reem Acra
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A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
Stephen Spender
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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A community chalkboard is about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.
Candy Chang
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
Mencius
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A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
Shekhar Kapur
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Wislawa Szymborska
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One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
Gertrude Atherton
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As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.
Ivan Turgenev
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I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
Nicholas D. Woodman
