Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I know you are, but what am I ?
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Change comes from within.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
How do you live ?
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
They are able because they think they are able.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
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.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
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.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
In love beggar and king are equal.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
The first duty of love is to listen.
You talkin to me ?
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.