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Letter "I" » inspiration
«Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?»
Author: Alex Noble
| Keywords:
comfortable, essential, find out, growth, inspiration, safe, something else, staying
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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application, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, awareness, core, difficulties, inherent, inspiration, insufficient, misfortune, persistence, realized, species, The Core, vigor, worthwhile
«Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.»
«The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
discovers, follower, followers, gifts, impart, imparting, imparts, influence, inspiration, liberates, natural, pupils, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, stimulating, The Men, The Natural, twice
«That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.»
«Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.»
«Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, impression, indelible, inspiration, poem, reminded
«The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ancestors, draws, hero, inspiration
«The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
believes, comes, companionship, discovers, else, Friend, friendship, glory, glorying, hand, him, inspiration, inspirations, joy, Joy of, kindlier, kindliest, kindly, Nor, on one hand, outstretched, outstretches, smile, Someone else, spiritual, spiritual being, The Spiritual, To Joy, trust, willing
«The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
gentleman, inspiration, reads, The Bible
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