Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Attitude determines altitude.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Count your blessings.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Act or accept.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
You talkin to me ?
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
High expectations are the key to everything.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Work is love made manifest.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
I'm going to take a bath.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.