Inspiration Quotes

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

19223 quotes

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."
Mark Twain
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
Mark Twain
"O me! O life!... that you are here—that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
Walt Whitman
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"Resolve to make your life a noble one."
Herman Melville
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"Bloom while you have it."
Emily Dickinson
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"In creation's morning, we were brave."
Emily Dickinson
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
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"To inspire others, one must first inspire oneself with a great purpose."
Herman Melville
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"Some unseen hand reaches through the darkness of the mind."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Inspiration strikes the prepared mind."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Great things have small beginnings."
Henry James
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"The world needs more gentleness and understanding."
François Mauriac
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"We must never lose our capacity for wonder."
François Mauriac
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"We are all capable of great transformation."
François Mauriac
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"Inspiration is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"There is nobility in struggle and dignity in defeat."
Herman Melville
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"A man's legacy is not what he leaves behind but what he leaves within others."
Herman Melville
"Inspiration strikes those desperate enough to listen."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Inspiration arrives not when we seek it, but when we create space for it."
François Mauriac
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"Aspiration is a beautiful thing."
Henry James
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"Inspiration arrives unbidden to those who have prepared the ground for its arrival."
Herman Melville
"Inspiration comes from confronting your own darkness."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Inspiration is usually just desperation in disguise."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Inspiration is the spark of creation."
Romain Rolland
"Inspiration strikes the prepared mind."
Romain Rolland
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"Devotion to an improbable dream sustains us through the impossible."
Anatole France
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"Inspiration often strikes those who have prepared the ground for it."
François Mauriac
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"Inspiration comes to those who have prepared the soil of their minds"
Henry James
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more."
Marcel Proust