Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The buck stops here.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
If they move, kill ' em.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Love is perfect kindness
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Be Here Now.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Never, never, never give up.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Talkers are no good doers.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.