Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Actions speak louder than words.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Be the best that you can be.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Honor the ocean of love.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Love knows no bounds.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Seize the day.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Live your life and forget your age.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Obstacles are great incentives.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
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.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Fortune favors the brave.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
You had me at hello.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
God doesn't make junk.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !