Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Happiness is a choice.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
My precious.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
You talkin to me ?
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Happy wife, happy life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Warriors, come out to play !
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Well done is better than well said.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.