Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If they move, kill ' em.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Be the ball.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
One man with courage is a majority.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Forget about it.
Be who you are in every situation.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
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.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.