474 quotes
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.
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.
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.
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
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