Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Every dog has his day.
Love is the only rational act.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Hard work pays off.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
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.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The beginning is the half of every action.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Know thyself.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Let's roll.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The best way out is always through.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
I don't give a shit.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Happiness is a state of activity.
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.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.