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.

I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way.

– Buddhist proverb

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

 – Epictetus

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. 

– Muhammad Ali

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

– Maya Angelou

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

– Aesop

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

– Emily Dickinson

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

– Mahatma Gandhi

It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

– J.K. Rowling

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Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

– Steve Goodier

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

– Winston Churchill

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

– Maya Angelou

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

– John N. Mitchell

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

– Josh Billings

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

– Francis Bacon

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