Quotes about Inspiration

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's Notebook, 1885

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Yes, she was a poem, she was a dream, she was a spirit...

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.