Quotes About Inspiration

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.