Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Seize the day.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
The best things in life are free.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Don't quit.
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.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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 all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
No matter where you go, there you are.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To go fast, row slowly.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
You are what you think about all day long.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Never stop dreaming.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Love is perfect kindness
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
The show must go on.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Those who laugh - last!!
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you build it, he will come.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.