Quotes about inspiration
48 quotes from 44 people
Indira Gandhi1917–1984Speech presenting Martin Luther King’s Nehru Award to Coretta Scott King, New Delhi (24 January 1969)Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Jane Goodall1934–2025With Love (1999)The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levittborn 1981Details, 2010You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Episode of the National Public Radio program Speaking of Faith: “Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh” (2003)Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Address at Stanford University (2005)You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
Frida Kahlo1907–1954Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
Helen Keller1880–1968“Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy”, Joseph P. Lash (1980)
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Song of a Man who has Come Through (1917)
Jack London1876–1916“Getting into Print”, first published in 1903 in The Editor magazineWe don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Bob Marley1945–1981As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
