Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
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.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
God doesn't make junk.
Children are all foreigners.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The dingo took my baby !
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Somebody stop me !
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Real love stories never have endings.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.