Inspiration Quotes

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.

~ Vincent H. O'neil

Mon Dieu donne-moi la sérénité d’accepter toutes les choses que je ne peux changer. Donne-moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer et la sagesse d’en connaître la différence.

~ Moines Du Moyen Âge

One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

~ John Lee Hooker

Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water.

~ Tetsuo Miura

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

~ Ron Koertge

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

~ Marie Howe

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

~ Kelly Link

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.

~ Toni Morrison

The Legend of the Firefish,first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy by George Bryan Polivka, is a winner....filled with action,adventure, danger, intrigue,surprise,suspense....The characters Polivka created are fresh and interesting....A must read for fantasy lovers, and a highly recommended drating for others who want a good story. Rebecca LuElla Miller A Christian Worldview of Fiction Website

~ George Bryan Polivka

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

~ Peter Redgrove

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

~ Billy Sothern

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

~ Walter Gropius

If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.

~ Lynn Dove

You’re human. You can’t be a “motivational speaker” every damn day of your life. It’s okay to have dark days. Allow yourself to go there, then come back up with a gusto, like you always do. You’re an angel, but you’re also human. Don’t beat yourself up for being authentic.

~ Melody Lee

Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.

~ Tony Cleaver

I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It just took awhile to find me under all the rubble.

~ Alfa H

I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try

~ Nyki Mack

I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going back there... to a me that didn't know your name.

~ Liz Newman

Cognitive Intelligence defines a person's personality trait who utilizes critical thinking based on empirical evidence, logics and thorough understanding of the information during an intellectual argument or an educational setting where they acquire brand new concepts.

~ Saaif Alam

Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.

~ Sabrina Newby

What is Fulfillment? Fulfillment is being Blissfully Content...with Pleasure and Peace...with Calmness and Courage...with Joy and Love.

~ Rvm

The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.

~ Clyde Lee Dennis

That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.

~ Clyde Lee Dennis

You cannot win at that which you never start.

~ Clyde Lee Dennis

You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.

~ Clyde Lee Dennis

Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.

~ Loren Weisman

You may not be able to change people’s Actions, but you can choose your own Reactions. Always react Positively and be Happy!

~ Rvm

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

~ Vernon Howard

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Every wicked act is a snare.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back.

~ Avina Celeste

What can a man do for a woman while she live her life? You can only show her that you love her.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Motivation doesn't work, Your decisions do!

~ Farshad Asl

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

~ Ted Gioia

Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun.

~ Melody Lee

A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study.

~ Saaif Alam

Attitude at work shows attitude in life. If you want to know how people are doing in their lives, watch how they perform in their work. Do they have full commitment in giving their best to whatever they do? Do they treat their very act of being involved in an activity seriously? You can see that people who work halfheartedly are the very same people who get halfhearted results in life. The truth is we are always in a game because life is a game. We either play to win or not.Those who are serious about winning are the ones who do. Most people want to have fun playing the game, but winners are the ones who want to have serious fun. The most fun you can have in anything you do is by playing to win & by winning. The irony of life is that those who are not serious about life, end up in situations that are not funny. Winning results from the intention to win. The stronger your intent to win, the more your probabilities of winning. Playing to win mindset is considered obsolete by many, but you will see that whenever two evenly matched players are competing head to head, the one who is more intent on winning is the one who does. Individuals with strong intention of winning are able to overcome tougher challenges.Intention to win is important.Play to win.

~ Ron Malhotra

By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence.

~ Amber Hurdle

I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar.

~ Amber Hurdle

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

~ Amber Hurdle