Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
If you would create something, you must be something.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
No man is free who is not master of himself.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Reach for the stars.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
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.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
I think therefore I am
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Don't ever give up.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Anything is possible.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Kindness is always fashionable.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
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.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Say hello to my little friend !