Definition of Inspiration
Inspiration
The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.
The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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Inspiration Quotations
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Tony Robbins
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Henry David Thoreau
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration Translations
inspiration in Dutch is ingeving
inspiration in Finnish is luomisvire
inspiration in French is inspiration, trouvaille
inspiration in German is Eingebung
inspiration in Italian is eccitamento, idea
inspiration in Latin is inflatus
inspiration in Norwegian is inspirasjon
inspiration in Swedish is ingivelse
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