Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
How do you live ?
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Practice makes perfect.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Yo, Adrian !
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Attica ! Attica !
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Love is something eternal.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
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.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
It's good to be the king !
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.