Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Actions speak louder than words.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
We're on a mission from God.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Those who laugh - last!!
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
May you live all the days of your life.
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.
You're as old as you behave.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Love is friendship set to music
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
I am the captain of my soul.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Love is not selfish.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
You create your reality.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Experience is the best teacher.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
A woman who is loved always has success.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Act or accept.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Hunker down.