Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Non !
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Happy wife, happy life.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I'm going to take a bath.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Snap out of it !
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I want the fairy tale.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Don't water your weeds.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Find the good -- and praise it.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I see dead people.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
One man with courage is a majority.
Those who laugh - last!!
How do I look ?
Seize the day.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.