Quotes About Inspiration

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
― Gautama Buddha

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz

“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”
― Lou Holtz

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“It takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye.”
― Anurag Gupta

“You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.”
― Max Lucado, Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”
― Lenny Bruce

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
― George Lucas

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
― Tricia Cunningham

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan, Night Game

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow