Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Work is love made manifest.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
It's good to be the king !
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
My heart shall be thy garden.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Happiness is a choice.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Keep the Faith.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You're my Lassie come home.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I think therefore I am
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
You become what you think about.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Ability is sexless.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Always do the right thing.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.