Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Live your dreams.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Show me the money !
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Our love is here to stay.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
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.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
All mankind love a lover.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Hi-Yo, Silver !
You become what you think about.
You're my Lassie come home.
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.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Make the second effort your second nature.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Follow the money.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
It's showtime !
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Fortune favors the brave.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.