Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Only the educated are free.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
I want to be alone.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Hey, lady !
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Change comes from within.
May you live all the days of your life.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.