Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Only the educated are free.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Let's roll.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
I saw and loved.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
It's never too late.
Sanctuary !
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Don't fear, just live right.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.