Inspiration Quotes

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.