My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere.

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.

I testify that each one of us can feel the Lord's inspiration as we live worthily and strive to serve Him.

I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

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