Quotes on Inspiration

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated or group act, and no evangelizers acts, as Paul VI reminded very well, "on the strength of a personal inspiration, but in union with the mission of the Church and in her name"

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.