Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
As if !
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Success is predictable.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
It's showtime !
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Love is friendship set to music
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
The show must go on.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
I love a good fight.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Happiness is a choice.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Keep away from small 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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The dingo took my baby !
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Let thy words be few.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
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.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Success leaves clues.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.