
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 8.
“There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.”
The Secret of Efficient Expression (1911)
An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Ted Talks, https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_founders_of_black_lives_matter?language=en (October 2016)
“Some of the words you'll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.”
III. 26–27 (tr. Robert Fagles); Athena to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action