Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The best way out is always through.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
No man is wise enough by himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Know thyself.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
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Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
I think we deserve a break.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Love is a many splendered thing.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Rosebud.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Love that is true never grows old.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Let's go home, Debbie.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.