Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I'm an excellent driver.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
After your jump, the net appears.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Success is never wondering what if.
Real love stories never have endings.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Kind words conquer.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
There is no education like adversity.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
This is nothing !
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Live life with passion.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Where's the rest of me ?
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 !
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.