Quotes About Inspiration

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)