Quotes About Inspiration

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Your voice can change the world.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

America is too great for small dreams.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.