Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There are simply too many notes.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Hope springs eternal.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
The first duty of love is to listen.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Nothing succeeds like success.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Love is not selfish.
Love is the only rational act.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I think we deserve a break.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Success leaves clues.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Know thyself.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
You can do what you want to do.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.