Inspiration Quotes

The spark that starts everything. Words that have launched movements, careers, and quiet revolutions.

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"Inspiration comes from paying attention to life around you."
Langston Hughes
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"I write to celebrate the ordinary heroism of everyday people."
Langston Hughes
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"I wanted the world to see me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"It is hard to ignore the feeling that you are being called to something greater."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I have always believed in the power of the human spirit."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I'm not interested in the middle ground—in something which is neither hot nor cold, which doesn't engage the reader."
James Baldwin
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"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
Pearl S. Buck
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"I hear America singing."
Sinclair Lewis
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"There's something in humans that wants to be better than they are."
John Steinbeck
"Inspiration strikes the prepared mind."
Theodore Dreiser
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"A man cannot be an optimist unless he believes that all things are possible."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The greatest achievement is becoming who you were meant to be."
Ernest Hemingway
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"It is the responsibility of the writer to lift people up, not just to entertain them."
John Steinbeck
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"Inspiration is not found; it is created through discipline and dedication."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Inspiration is the voice of your best self calling you forward."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Inspiration comes to those who have first learned to be bored."
Theodore Dreiser
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"The secret to keeping young is to find an absorbing interest."
Edith Wharton
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"The greatest discovery a person can make is the discovery of their own potential."
Edith Wharton
"Inspiration strikes when we are open to it."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Inspiration strikes like lightning, brilliant but brief and rare."
Theodore Dreiser
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"The greatest inspiration comes from witnessing ordinary people do extraordinary things."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."
Sinclair Lewis
"Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions."
Willa Cather
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"A writer's greatest enemy is self-doubt disguised as wisdom."
Ernest Hemingway
"Believe in yourself and others will too."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"There is something about a girl like you that just makes me want to do something big."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Remember, you're made of the same material as the stars."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The greatest inspiration comes from witnessing others overcome adversity."
Theodore Dreiser
"Inspiration strikes the prepared mind."
James Fenimore Cooper