Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Above all to thine own self be true.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.