Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Union gives strength.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
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.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Count your blessings.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Ability is sexless.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.