Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
To go fast, row slowly.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Act or accept.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Many hands make light work.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success is predictable.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Count your blessings.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I light my candle from their torches.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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 !
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.