Inspiration Quotes

To win you've got to stay in the game.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

If customers are treated right, they'll come back.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

Patience is eternal genius

Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Smile. It is sunshine to others.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

A Warrior of the Light shares with others what he knows of the path.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

Write about what makes you different.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

Never be associated with someone you can't be proud of, whether you work for him or he works for you

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.