Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
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.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Success is predictable.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
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.
Must you flirt ?
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Procrastination is the thief of time.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
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.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Change comes from within.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
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.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Ability is sexless.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
There is time for everything.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
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.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Live your life and forget your age.