Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
The best things in life are free.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Only the educated are free.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Have you checked the children lately ?
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
They alone live, who live for others.
Live with passion !
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.