Inspiration Quotes

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication."

- Herb Elliott

"I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool."

- Bob Marley

"Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning."

- Tyler Shaw

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

- Albert Einstein

"The spirit of celebration and togetherness is a great source of inspiration."

- Nandita Mahtani

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

- Brad Henry

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

- Tony Robbins

"I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily."

- Martha Stewart

"Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration."

- Carlos Ghosn

"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."

- Elon Musk

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

- Pearl S. Buck

"I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen."

- Richard Hatch

"My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils."

- Russell M. Nelson

"We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up."

- Mandy Ingber

"Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration."

- Austin Butler

"There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration."

- Richelle Mead

"In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff."

- Usher

"To get into the room with big brands, you need a reason to be there. Think about what you can bring to the table that's unique, valuable, or exciting. Be the meeting that people look forward to."

- Melissa Bennet

"You find inspiration everywhere. The best inspiration is the people you grew up with. Nobody else knows about you than when you were just regular, everyday people. That's where most of it comes from."

- Bray Wyatt

"I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers."

- Conor McGregor

"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."

- Amy Tan

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

- Pablo Picasso

"What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking."

- Wong Kar-wai

"Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses."

- Sri Aurobindo

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

- Helen Hanson

"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it."

- Jack London

"Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."

- Wisława Szymborska

"I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports."

- Rachel Corrie

"I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too."

- Sabrina Carpenter