Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We have not yet begun to fight.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Better late than never.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
You're as old as you behave.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Seize the day.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Love is not selfish.
Love is the only rational act.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
They alone live, who live for others.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Where's the rest of me ?
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The cherokee people are not "my people".
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
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.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
I am your father.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Act or accept.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
After your jump, the net appears.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Don't water your weeds.
Where there is love there is life.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.