What inspires? What sparks creation?

There are as many answers to this as there are ideas. Leading clients through the ideation process is one of the several services we provide at Dawn. Often we use quotes to spark a discussion. We seek out quotes where the writer skillfully uses words to express and illuminate an idea in a powerful or provocative way. You’ll find some of our favorites here, including ones that have the power to alter a mindset. If you’re looking for a favorite author or a particular subject, use our search function to find these quotes from the illuminating nuggets we’ve collected.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

– Frank A. Clark

Life isn’t about making your day, it’s about making someone else’s.

– Sarah Marshall

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

– George Santayana

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

– Eckhart Tolle

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

– Eckhart Tolle

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

– Eckhart Tolle

It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.

– Lena Horne

The road to success is always under construction.

– Lily Tomlin

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

– Yogi Berra

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

What you resist persists.

– C.G. Jung

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

– Chinese proverb

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

– Alice Walker

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

– Michelangelo

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

– The Buddha

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We know what we are, but not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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