Wellspring Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration...
— Martin Freeman
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Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
— Marcus Aurelius
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One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your…
— Ellis Paul Torrance
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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the…
— Jean Houston
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Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is…
— Joanna Macy
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The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The…
— Pope John Paul II
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
— Tom Peters
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When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities…
— Thomas Berry
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If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived…
— William J. Brennan
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.…
— Kathryn Stripling Byer
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That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her…
— Joan Bennett
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. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and…
— Catherine L. Albanese
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make…
— Pope John Paul II
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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word'…
— Franklin Graham
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It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
— Josh Fox
Who Wrote These Wellspring Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 44 Wellspring Quotes, led by these top contributors: