Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Never complain about what you permit.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
You can do what you want to do.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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, two minds without a single thought.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Here's looking at you, kid.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Love is something eternal.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
One man with courage is a majority.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Let's roll.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.