Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
This too, shall pass.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
There are simply too many notes.
Old love does not rust.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
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.
You create your reality.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
They're here !
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.