90+ Inspiring Quotes About Finding Your Inner Inspiration

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

- Socrates

"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

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."

- Vincent van Gogh

"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

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

- Charles Baudelaire

"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

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release."

- Eddie van Halen

"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

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Bob Marley

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"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

"Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person."

- Naveen Jain

"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

"Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going."

- Bill Walton

"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers."

- Robin S. Sharma

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

- Winston Churchill

"A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects."

- Ruskin Bond

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

- Eric Clapton

"The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight."

- Mike Tyson

"I get inspiration from my everyday life."

- Hayao Miyazaki

"Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair"

- Robert Hunter

"I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live."

- Grandma Moses

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

- Alanis Morissette

"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

"David Bowie is my biggest inspiration. Pretty much the only thing that stayed the same with Bowie was his eyes. Everything else constantly changed, from his sexuality to his songs."

- Lil Peep

"I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration."

- RM

"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding."

- Willie Dixon

"My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that."

- Mahesh Babu

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."

- Carter G. Woodson

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

- Naomi Klein

"Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past."

- Lana Del Rey

"I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

- Johannes Brahms

"In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times."

- Virat Kohli

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."

- Ronald Reagan

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."

- Nolan Bushnell

"The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature."

- Matthew Williamson

"To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry."

- Mahmoud Darwish

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

- Albert Einstein

"I'm totally obsessed with Tilda Swinton. She has this strange, beautiful sexiness about her. I love everything she does. And I love her hair. It was a little bit of an inspiration for mine."

- Megan Rapinoe

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent van Gogh

"It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

- Trisha Yearwood

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."