Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you build it, he will come.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
You know, Billy. We blew it.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
God doesn't make junk.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Help me ! Help me !
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
I am your father.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.