Garden Gnome

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Unknown

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

No man should plant more garden than his wife can hoe. - Old Saying

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. - J.G. Ballard

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrold

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G K Chesterton

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

So come, and slowly we will walk through green gardens and marvel at this strange and sweet world. - Sylvia Plath

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg