Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You complete me.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
We rob banks.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The book you don't read cant help.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Faith can move mountains.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
For Love is Immortality.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
What ever you are be a good one.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Hard work pays off.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
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.