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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Franz Liszt

Composer · Hungarian · 1811 – 1886

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Igor Stravinsky

Composer · Russian · 1882 – 1971

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Michael Bloomberg

Politician · American · b. 1942

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Educator · American · 1796 – 1859

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Educator · American · 1796 – 1859

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

Playwright · British · 1937 – 1995

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

Writer · Canadian · b. 1951

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

George A. Smith

Clergyman · American · 1817 – 1875

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

Historian · American · 1875 – 1950

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

John Boehner

Politician · American · b. 1949

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

President · American · 1767 – 1848

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk

Scientist · American · 1914 – 1995

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

Shelby Foote

Author · American · 1916 – 2005

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Jonas Salk

Scientist · American · 1914 – 1995

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

Scientist · American · 1887 – 1948

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

John L. Phillips

Astronaut · American · b. 1951

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

James Lee Burke

Author · American

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Producer · American · b. 1945

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Juan Goytisolo

Poet · Spanish

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

Architect · Canadian · b. 1924

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist

Politician · American · b. 1952

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

William McKinley

President · American · 1843 – 1901

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles Lindbergh

Aviator · American · 1902 – 1974

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

Poet · British · 1887 – 1964

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Writer · American · b. 1967

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

Clergyman · Indian · 1863 – 1902

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Novelist · American · 1804 – 1864

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Novelist · American · 1918 – 2007

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Harry Seidler

Architect · Australian · 1923 – 2006

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Stephen Gardiner

Architect · British · 1924 – 2007

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author · American

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · American · 1809 – 1849

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Celler

Politician · American · 1888 – 1981

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

Carter Burwell

Composer · American · b. 1955

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Novelist · Cuban · 1929 – 2005

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

Emily Greene Balch

Educator · American · 1867 – 1961

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

James De La Vega

Artist

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Hans Kung

Theologian · Swiss · b. 1928

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

Director · Swedish · b. 1946

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Richard King

Director

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