Quotes About Inspiration

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

To be a man, a boy must see a man