Quotes About Inspiration

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.