Quotes About Inspiration

Hope is progress

There's always time to launch your dreams

You can be what you dream.

If you ask, flowers and plants will tell you many stories. God can talk through them, and if you ask them, they will raise their hands if they know they can help you with an illness.

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

Change is the key that unlocks the door to growth and excitement in any organization. The leader's ability to inspire a culture of change can make or break their success. Tomorrow comes at us with lightning speed, and our competitive advantage is a fleeting thing. Bill Gates puts it this way: "In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

As a leader, however, we must manage our attitudes. Do we need to be perfect? Of course not. But we can never underestimate the influence that our actions and our attitudes will have on our team.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.

La invención, no la copia de la realidad, es la verdad del arte.

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

in any group, someone has to lead, and it might as well be a woman - provided she has done the work necessary to prepare.

Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.

Robert Frost: "Now when I am old my teachers are the young.

Over the decades, I have given speeches of many types, but commencement addresses (along with remarks at funerals) are the hardest to prepare. At my own graduation, the principal speaker was the secretary of defense, who advised the young ladies of Wellesley to find suitable husbands and raise smart children.

A speechmaker's gravest sin is to leave the listener indifferent. I was determined not to be dull.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.