Quotes about Inspiration

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper. He should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted , or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all hosts of heaven and earth pause to say; Here lives a great sweeper who did his job well .

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.