Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Keep away from 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.
Carpe diem.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
There are no gains without pains.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Show me the money !
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Mr. Christian !
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
The best way out is always through.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !