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.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

– Arthur Ashe

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people.

– G.K. Chesterton

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

– Jim Henson

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

– Harry S. Truman

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.

– Allen Saunders

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

– C.G. Jung

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

– Mahatma Gandhi

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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

– Robert Frost

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

– Maya Angelou

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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

– Jimmy Dean

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

– Edmund Burke

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

– Elbert Hubbard

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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

– Roger Ward Babson

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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

– Edgar Watson Howe

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