Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Get away from her, you bitch !
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You had me at hello.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
You become what you think about.
This is the beginning of a new day.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
What hump ?
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
How do I look ?
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?