Quotes About Inspiration

I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief that I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way. (p. 19)

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.

Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life.

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I Believe in Miracles and the Power of the Individual to make a positive difference in the world.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

If you see somebody with even reasonable intelligence and a terrific passion for what they do and who can get people around them to march, even when those people can't see over the top of the next hill, things are gonna happen

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

The people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Look for a job you would take if you didn't need a job.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.

power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.

When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.

We must dream, but not only dream.

Don't die with the music still in you.