Inspiration quotes

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Let 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.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Nor 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.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Art is the proper task of life.