Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Don't water your weeds.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
How do you live ?
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Always do the right thing.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Bond. James Bond.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You're tearing me apart !
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Practice makes perfect.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.