Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
He who hesitates is lost !
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
We rob banks.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
But I would be proud.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Love is letting go of fear.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Well done is better than well said.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Live your dreams.
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.
Action is the antidote to despair.
There are simply too many notes.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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 !
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Love is perfect kindness
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !