Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
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.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Never Quit.
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.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Work is love made manifest.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
No pain, No gain.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.