Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Grow deep - not just tall.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Attica ! Attica !
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Somebody stop me !
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Success is the child of audacity.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
But I would be proud.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Never spend your money before you have it.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The best things in life are free.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
What is life without the radiance of love.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
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.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Follow the money.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Go ahead, make my day.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Where there's life, there's hope.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
My precious.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Love, two minds without a single thought.