Quotes About Inspiration

I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.

You have no more right to go about among your fellows with a vinegar expression an your face, radiating mental poison, spreading the germs of doubt, fear, discouragement and despondency among them, than you have to inflict bodily injuries on them.

You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit of clay, and more than you can see the North Star in the magnetic needle. God has loaded the needle of that young life so it will point to the star which presides over poetry, art, law, medicine, or whatever your own pet calling is, until you have wasted years precious life, yet, when once free, the needle flies back to its own star.

Let the adverse breath of criticism be to you only what the blast of the storm wind is to the eagle,—a force against him that lifts him higher.

You will never get any higher than your vision and your faith in that vision.

Your highest ideal, the vision of your life work which you long to make real, is your best friend. Keep as close to it as you can, stick to it, and it will lead you to your goal.

Lo que importa no es tanto lo que haces con tus manos como lo que haces con tu mente. Todo lo que se ha logrado por la mano o el cerebro del hombre, nació en la mente.

Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.

the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities.

Even a momentary contact with a character of this kind seems to double our mental and soul powers, as two great dynamos double the current which passes over the wire, and we are loath to leave the magical presence lest we lose our new-born power. On

Orison Swett Marden

It is a great thing to so carry yourself that when people see you coming, they will say to themselves, 'Here comes a winner! Here is a man who dominates everything he touches.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, says Mary Wortley Montagu; nor any pleasure so lasting. Good books elevate the character, purify the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living. It is not easy to be mean directly after reading a noble and inspiring book. The conversation of a man who reads for improvement or pleasure will be flavored by his reading; but it will not be about his reading.

books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.

If he would only burst his self-imposed shackles, get out of himself, break away from the narrow bounds of his sickly, limited thought, he could be a power in the world.

LIVE UPWARD. Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day. If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. --HELEN KELLER

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles, life. —Young. The smallest hair throws its shadow. —Goethe. He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. —Ecclesiastes. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. —Tennyson. A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever.

Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.

If we wish to appeal to the best, if we wish to draw the best out of others, we must look for the best in them; we must think the best of them; we must trust them; we must believe in them. The man who smiles and sees the best in everything and everybody is the man who draws the best out of others. He attracts others and wins out in life, while the gloomy, sour face repels everyone.

Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don't look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man—it is you, it is I; it is each one of us!... How to constitute one's self a man? Nothing harder, if one knows not how to will it; nothing easier, if one wills it. —Alexander Dumas.

to inspire his men, wont about among the plague-stricken soldiers, touching their wounds with his bare hands. He said that the man who had no fear would never be stricken with the plague. he believed that the mind is master of the body. If there was over a believer in the almost omnipotent power of the mind and of the will, it was Napoleon.