Inspiration Quotes

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

~ Richard Bach

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

~ Ovid

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

~ Jack Welch

Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!

~ Mutanat Enemy

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

~ Helen Steiner Rice

Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

~ Caroline Kennedy

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.

~ Chuck Close

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

~ Paulo Coelho

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.

~ Pema Chödrön

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

~ Libba Bray

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

~ Lauren Graham

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character...-annabelle granger

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

~ Alice Hoffman

‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

~ Ishmael Beah

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

~ Terry Pratchett

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

~ Anne Lamott

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

~ Warren Buffett

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.

~ Valencia Mackie

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

~ John Wesley

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

~ Judith Orloff

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

~ Roman Payne

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

~ David Levithan

Your life is your spiritual path.It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.

~ Sandy Nathan

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

~ Patti Smith

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

~ Mary Ellen Chase

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

~ Christopher Reeve

until the end of the world,all whys will be answered,but now,you can only ask!

~ Bob Marley

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

~ Katie Couric

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

~ Megan Mccafferty

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.

~ Neil Gaiman

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good.

~ Brian Tracy

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

~ Dorianne Laux

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

~ Robert Fanney