Quotes About Inspiration

Seeing the moonlight Spilling down Through these trees, My heart fills to the brim With autumn.

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

[The] biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.