Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
I like to watch.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Never Quit.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
You're my Lassie come home.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Love, two minds without a single thought.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
This is this.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Forget about it.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Here's Johnny !
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.