Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
No matter where you go, there you are.
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.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
This is the beginning of a new day.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Show me the money !
What's meant to be will always find a way
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Don't water your weeds.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Honesty is the best image.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Love understands all languages.
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.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Things do not change we change.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
I'm going to take a bath.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Open the pod bay doors,
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Success is the child of audacity.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Love is the only rational act.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Truth fears no questions.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Well done is better than well said.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.