Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
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.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Well done is better than well said.
I light my candle from their torches.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You're my Lassie come home.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Follow your dreams.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Where's the rest of me ?
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.