Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Remove failure as an option.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
I see dead people.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
What hump ?
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.