Quotes About Inspiration

Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there've been, it's queerer still. I wonder what it is that makes us do it, Singles us out to scribble down, man-wise, The fragments of ourselves.

Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

The petals numbered but degrade to prose Summer's triumphant poem of the rose.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.

Children are God's Apostles, day by day Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Poets so their verses write, Heap them full of life and light, And then fling them to the rude Mumbling of the multitude.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak, If you've once found the way you've achieved the grand stroke.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Perhaps the feeling stemmed from

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

What impressed me most about José Mourinho was his capacity to mould a young team in his image-an aggressive, motivated and winning team-with the available ''raw material'', i. e. human material, and make any player believe that he was the best in the world in his position, when perhaps he wasn't.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

To do something however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.