Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Say hello to my little friend !
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
He who stops being better stops being good.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Love is a verb.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
I'm an excellent driver.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Grow deep - not just tall.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
For with god all things are possible.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.