Inspired Quotes

1267 Inspired quotes by 1049 unique authors

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired… — Kate Jacobs
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. — George R. R. Martin
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is… — Paul Theroux
Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please… — Chris Heimerdinger
Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired. — Katherine Neville
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of… — Tom Wolfe
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories.… — Octavia Butler
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.… — Ezra Pound
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. — Salvador Dali
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to… — Howard Zinn
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that… — Thomas S. Monson
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine — Karl Lagerfeld
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. — Fulton J. Sheen
Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and… — Maggie Stiefvater
I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the… — Dean Koontz
Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of… — Christopher Paolini
Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But… — Jerry Spinelli
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in… — Ellen Schreiber
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham

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