inspiration

The philosopher Kant said that two things always astonished and inspired him more and more: the starry sky and the consciousness of the law of kindness that a person recognizes in his soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.

—Michelangelo

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

—Pablo Picasso

6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:

1. It exercises our humility.

2. It instructs our faith.

3. It lights us up with joy.

4. It inflames us with love.

5. It inspires us with zeal.

6. It lifts us up towards heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

—Thomas Edison

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

—Søren Kierkegaard

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

—Plato

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

—Immanuel Kant

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

—Sigmund Freud

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

—Nikolai Gogol