Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly PartonThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinI am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle ObamaThose who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco ChanelYou should treat a muse like a fairy.
Paulo CoelhoI’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl LagerfeldMillions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
Jeff BezosI’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
Kendrick LamarAs much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.
Clint EastwoodWine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel JohnsonAnd so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice WalkerLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David HareGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Bob MarleyNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil GibranFor me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.
DJ KhaledLive out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen CoveyI’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.
Taylor SwiftI love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich NietzscheI’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘
Joel OsteenWhen I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
Taylor SwiftI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John SteinbeckIn every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
Narendra ModiIf you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
John C. MaxwellThe Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
Stephen HawkingEverybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John MuirAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar WildeArt raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich NietzscheMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas CarlyleA lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.
Mr. TYou can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.
Taylor SwiftEveryone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve JobsHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad AliDo not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Albert SchweitzerDoes wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheLet us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.
Ronald ReaganThe true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che GuevaraI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanPennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret ThatcherPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van GoghWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert HooverKeep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen KellerIf you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.
Taylor SwiftNay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David ThoreauWhile I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald ReaganEverything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea BallouI couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
David BowieI love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius CaesarMan becomes his most creative during war.
Clint EastwoodIt’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.
EminemEvery man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.
Dave GrohlI go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘
Mr. TOn Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
Joel OsteenThe eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
Joyce MeyerWhere the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da VinciI’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye WestI want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
Brian EnoWhenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara