Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
You talkin to me ?
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Find the good -- and praise it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Do you like scary movies ?
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Without a general an army is lost.
Love is something eternal.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I'll be back.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.