Quotes about Inspiration
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
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
— James G. Frazer
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
— Arthur Conan Doyle