Quotes About Inspiration

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

I don't want every girl to have the same ambitions as me but I want them to be ambitious. I'm tired of seeing girls that shut up and have no ambition being idolized as what's attractive.

The world is tough, women inspire the world with their kindness, wit and courage.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

No one can enslave you except your own thoughts and ideas. You were born to fly and hover in the highest of heights.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.