Inspiration Quotes

"Art is not a thing, it is a way."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet."

- Paul Klee

"Art is a line around your thoughts."

- Gustav Klimt

"Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist."

- Pablo Picasso

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet… Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experience. They can think themselves into other people’s places… We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

""Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.""

- William James

""Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.""

- Plato

""Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!""

- Richelle E. Goodrich

""I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.""

- Edward Everett Hale

""There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.""

- Edith Wharton

""Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.""

- Harriet Tubman

""How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.""

- Anne Frank

""Beginning today; treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.""

- Og Mandino

""The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.""

- Benjamin Disraeli

""Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.""

- Steve Jobs

""Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.""

- Margaret Mead

""Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.""

- Leo Buscaglia

""My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.""

- Stephen Hawking

""A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.""

- Mahatma Gandhi

""If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.""

- B. Reese

""It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.""

- Sydney Smith

""If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.""

- Mother Teresa

""Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.""

- Norman Vincent Peale

""Difficult things we do quickly. The impossible takes a little longer.""

- David Ben-Gurion

""It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.""

- Henry David Thoreau

""A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.""

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Flight to Arras)

""First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.""

- Epictetus

""According to the theory of aerodynamics, the bumble bee is unable to fly because the size, weight and shape of its body in relation to the total wing spread make flying impossible. But the bumble bee, being ignorant of these profound scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway and manages to make a little honey every day.""