inspiration quotes

• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. (Eileen Caddy) [willpower/inspiration/life]
• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. (Marcus Cicero) [inspiration]
• The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [smile/joy/inspiration/trust]
• 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) [artist/inspiration/virtue/prayer]
• The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. (Michel Foucault) [find/inspiration/order]
• The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [inspiration/virtue]
• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/inspiration/ability/misfortune]
• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed. (Helen Keller) [art/pleasure/inspiration/willpower]
• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. (Cole Porter) [inspiration/director]
• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. (Ronald Reagan) [take/inspiration/past/future]
• Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. (Henry David Thoreau) [inspiration]
• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. (Oscar Wilde) [music/willpower/inspiration/moment]
• I got to thank God because that's my inspiration for everything that I do. ( Aaliyah) [god/inspiration]
• I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else (Britney Spears) [inspiration/people/role]
• I think one of my main moments of inspiration was when I was about 5. (Ben Kingsley) [think/inspiration]
• The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh. (Billy Crystal) [inspiration/group]
• Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. (Dean Martin) [inspiration/business/perseverance/discipline]
• Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or an inspiration for the character at all. (Johnny Depp) [inspiration/character]
• A few people have mentioned it, and it kind of took me by surprise. I really didn't expect that, ... Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or inspiration for the character at all. (Johnny Depp) [people/surprise/inspiration/character]
• Work can be hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way - hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job. (Val Kilmer) [give/inspiration]
• “(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.” (Gwen Stefani) [inspiration/angel/music]
• “Oh, my God, y'all. Sometimes, I can't just shake the feeling that I'm just a little girl from Tennessee. I want to say my biggest inspiration for this movie obviously was June Carter. She was an incredible woman.” (Reese Witherspoon) [god/feeling/inspiration/movie]
• I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves. (Teri Garr) [give/people/inspiration/motivation]
• As I got older, I discovered his comedy records and then later his writing. He's a great inspiration to me on every level. (Jason Schwartzman) [inspiration]
• I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role. (Deborah Cox) [think/think/inspiration/role]
• I started rehearing in the middle of January and for preparation, like I said I went back to the video footage I had from when I went to Mozambique and Uganda, and that was my inspiration. (Deborah Cox) [inspiration]
• I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD. (Deborah Cox) [think/inspiration/chance/love]
• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration. (Wayne Newton) [night/inspiration]
• “'I just look over there for inspiration, motivation. You know, sometimes when I'm a little bit flat, they get me going.” (Maria Sharapova) [look/inspiration/motivation]
• “Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.” (Matt Lauer) [right/high/inspiration]
• “That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.” (Karl Urban) [danger/inspiration/film/television]

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