Quotes About Inspiration

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.