Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
I'm going to take a bath.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Who's on first.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Security is a kind of death.
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 death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
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.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Success is predictable.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
All mankind love a lover.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Go ahead, make my day.
The best things in life are free.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
We rob banks.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
You talkin to me ?
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.