Quotes about Inspiration
The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
— Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
Here, root yourselves beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River, Which will not be moved. I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours—your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave
— Maya Angelou
Humility says there were people before me who found the path. I'm a road builder. For those who are yet to come, I seem to be finding the path and they will be road builders. That keeps one humble. Love keeps one humble.
— Maya Angelou
Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim.the light which shines within us
— Maya Angelou
If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.
— Maya Angelou
My entire stay there might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.
— Maya Angelou
We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them.
— Melody Beattie
This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.
— Ben Carson
Thinking Big means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead. Thinking Big is another way of restating one of my mother's favorite sayings: "You can do anything they can do — only you must try to do it better!" That's Thinking Big.
— Ben Carson