Quotes About Inspiration

Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L'Engle

I'm a creative man so my fears are greater than most.

think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

New hopes are a fountain of energy.

Richard Paul Evans

Richard Paul Evans