Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I ain't so tough.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Carpe diem.
The past does not equal the future.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
No pain, No gain.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.