Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
I am your father.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
We will either find a way or make one.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
What a dump.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Love the giver more than the gift.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
All work is empty save when there is love.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Live life with passion.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
You had me at "hello".
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.