Inspiration Quotes

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

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"The world needs open hearts and open minds, and if all we ever do is close our hearts and minds to those different from us, we will never learn or grow."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Inspiration is not given; it is found within ourselves and shared with others."
Wisdom, John
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"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."
Moore, George Edward
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"We honor the virtuous person precisely because their character demonstrates what is genuinely good."
Foot, Philippa
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"We honor virtue because we recognize it as genuinely excellent."
Foot, Philippa
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"Inspiration strikes those prepared through disciplined practice and study."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Inspiration often comes unbidden to those who have prepared the ground through work."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Inspiration is the breath of the divine."
Weil, Simone
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"Natality is the human condition of action."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Miracles happen when we act together in concert."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Inspiration is the breath of the divine in human affairs."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Inspiration comes not from outside, but from the recognition of what we are already capable of doing."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Inspiration comes to the prepared mind."
Moore, George Edward
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"Inspiration is often mistaken for the beginning when it is merely the spark."
Moore, George Edward
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"Inspiration is the moment when we glimpse something greater than ourselves."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Inspiration is a spark; discipline is the flame that sustains it."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"We must never underestimate the power of ordinary people to do extraordinary things."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Inspiration is what remains when words abandon us."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Every moment is an opportunity for genuine meeting."
Buber, Martin
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"We are called to respond to the world, not merely to react to it."
Buber, Martin
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"Inspiration is the spark that ignites the flame of human potential."
Moore, George Edward
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"Inspiration often strikes those who are actively engaged in their work."
Moore, George Edward
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"Inspiration strikes those who have prepared the ground through discipline and openness."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Inspiration is the experience of being inhabited by otherness."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Inspiration arrives unbidden, departing without farewell."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion; for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Inspiration is what happens when the rational mind surrenders."
Bataille, Georges
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"Inspiration comes from witnessing authentic human becoming."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Inspiration arrives only when we cease demanding its presence."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Inspiration arrives only when we have abandoned all hope of its arrival."
Bataille, Georges