Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Better late than never.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
How do you live ?
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Ideas... they have the power
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Give all to love.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.