Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Only the educated are free.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
My friends are my estate.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The dingo took my baby !
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
The first duty of love is to listen.
To go fast, row slowly.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
You complete me.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
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.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
How do you live ?
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
You are what you think you are.
You're good, you're very good.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.