Quotes About Inspiration

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Art is the proper task of life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.