Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Ability is sexless.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Love understands all languages.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The book you don't read cant help.
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.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
How do you live ?
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
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.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Success is never wondering what if.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
What a dump.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
All you need is love.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
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.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
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.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.