Quotes About Inspiration

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

Nunca me preocuparé de que mis metas sean demasiado elevadas, puesto que, ¿no es mejor acaso apuntar mi lanza a la luna y herir solamente a un águila que apuntar mi lanza al águila y pegarle solamente a una roca?

What you wish can only be accomplished by changing one person at a time.

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I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle that produced me end with my brith? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

First, I will read the words in silence when I arise. Then, I will read the words in silence after I have partaken of my midday meal. Last, I will read the words again just before I retire at day's end, and most important, on this occasion I will read the words aloud.

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As I repeat the words daily they will soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars

but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege. Miss Love really laughed. There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!

So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.