Quotes about Inspiration

To change the world, we need an "I have a dream" speech, not an "I have a complaint" speech.

We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact with the great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their genius becomes ours. . . in The Great Conversation

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Unlike any other book that has ever been written, the Bible is alive; and it comes to with a personal Tutor-the Holy Spirit, who lives in us.

Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve.

Desire backed by faith, pushed reason aside, and inspired me to carry on.

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!

FAITH is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions.

Here is a man who sees nothing but the best there is in all whom he meets. If his neighbors seem indifferent he takes no notice of that fact, for he makes it his business to fill his mind with dominating thoughts of optimism and good cheer and faith in others.

Man's only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.

The efficient leader leads by encouraging, and not by trying to instil fear in the hearts of his followers. The leader who tries to impress his followers with his "authority" comes within the category of leadership through force. If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct— his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.