Inspiration Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.”
– James Buchan

“The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.”
– James Cash Penney

“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
– James Connolly

“We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.”
– James Larkin

“I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.”
– Janet Jackson

“Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
– Jean Anouilh

“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.”
– Jim Carrey

“My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.”
– Jimmy Chamberlin

“Inspiration doesn’t really work like that – you’re not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.”
– Joan Armatrading

“So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.”
– Joan Armatrading

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
– Johannes Brahms

“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.”
– John Kricfalusi

“My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.”
– John L. Phillips

“Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.”
– John Philip Sousa

“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”
– John Sergeant Wise

“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”
– John Updike

“I don’t believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life‘s inspiration: passive resistance. I don’t want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.”
– Johnny Rotton

“Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.”
– Jon Meacham

“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”
– Jon Stewart

“Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.”
– Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Personally speaking there’s only so long you can go from film to film to film. There’s an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.”
– Jude Law

“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.”
– Judy Collins

“When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go… The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!”
– Judy Collins

“The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.”
– Justin Timberlake

“Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

“Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.”
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven’t done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.”
– Ken Hill

“Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.”
– Kevin Eubanks

“I never played music, but it’s an important thing … the studying, the inspiration.”
– Kevin James

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