Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
You can do what you want to do.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Every artist was first an amateur.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I'm an excellent driver.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Above all to thine own self be true.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Many hands make light work.
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.
I am the captain of my soul.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
It is always your next move.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success is predictable.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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.
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.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.