Inspiration quotes

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In 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.

I dwell in possibility.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

To create something you must be something.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

If 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.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Always do whatever’s next.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

I 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.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Energy begets energy.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I’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.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Hitch your wagon to a star.