Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The best way out is always through.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Live your dreams.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Go ahead, make my day.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
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.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
My precious.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
What is life without the radiance of love.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !