Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Attica ! Attica !
These go to eleven.
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 !
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Change comes from within.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Don't think it, ink it.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Live with passion !
I see dead people.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I saw and loved.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Success leaves clues.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
If you build it, he will come.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.