Inspiration quotes

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

One man with courage is a majority.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Imagination rules the world.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

It’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.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.