Quotes about Inspiration
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
— Martha Graham
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
— Martin Luther
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
— Maya Angelou
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
— Napoleon Hill
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
— Khalil Gibran
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
— Samuel Johnson
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
— Brigham Young