Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Be the ball.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Action is the antidote to despair.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The buck stops here.
I ain't so tough.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
We can only learn to love by loving.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Many hands make light work.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Never complain about what you permit.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Go ahead, make my day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
What is life without the radiance of love.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.