Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Let thy words be few.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
God doesn't make junk.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I don't like your manners.
My life is my message.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Every dog has his day.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
I am your father.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Old love does not rust.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Success is predictable.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Only the educated are free.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
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.
It's good to be the king !
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.