Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Security is a kind of death.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Snap out of it !
Houston, we have a problem.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
My life is my message.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
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.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Roll with the punches.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.