Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
You complete me.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
The road to success is always under construction.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Cross your bridges.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
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.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Attica ! Attica !
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes