Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Happiness is a choice.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
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Sanctuary !
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Honor the ocean of love.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Must you flirt ?
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
How do I look ?
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
If you build it, he will come.
You sing-a high.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Count your blessings.
Ability is sexless.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
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.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Never complain about what you permit.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
There is time for everything.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The best things in life are not things.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.