Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Work is love made manifest.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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''.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The road to success is always under construction.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Actions speak louder than words.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
It's always too soon to quit !
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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.
To know me is to love me.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Keep the Faith.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.