Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
May the Force be with you.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
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.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Somebody stop me !
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Hard work pays off.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Never say more than is necessary.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Love is a hole in the heart.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.