Our pick of the best inspirational quotes | British Youth Music Theatre

Our pick of the best inspirational quotes

Call us cheesy, but here at YMT we believe that every artist and performer needs a little inspiration from time to time!

Here are some of our favourite quotes from actors, writers and famous figures from around the world. Feel inspired today!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Marilyn Monroe

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 
Oscar Wilde

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
Audrey Hepburn

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Maya Angelou

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
.”
Emily Dickinson

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”
Paulo Coelho

Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Woody Allen

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Victor Hugo

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
George Carlin

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Audrey Hepburn