Inspiration Quotes

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

I am seeking the unknown, and I am journeying towards what I do not yet understand

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Leap, and the net will appear.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.

What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts; with our thoughts, we make the world

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create

You can’t wait for the perfect moment; sometimes you must dare to jump in and make the wave yourself.

The only journey is the one within

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Stories have the power to change the world. Tell the one only you can tell.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Courage is grace under pressure

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

I am rooted, but I flow

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams; live the life you have imagined

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

He who binds himself to a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise

The muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don’t wait for her. Start alone.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings—it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Leap out of the dark and glow

Do not fear mistakes—there are none

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I dwell in possibility

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

I soar through the world on the wings of imagination.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Light tomorrow with today.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.

Become major, become who you are. Make yourself a work of art.

There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

At the still point of the turning world, there the dance is

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.