Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Act or accept.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Union gives strength.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Love is something eternal.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
After your jump, the net appears.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Follow the money.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
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A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.