Quotes about Inspiration
I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. And
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...
— Audre Lorde
There was a pain in Muriel to become herself that engaged my heart. I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed. Sometimes her words both thrilled me and made me weep.
— Audre Lorde