Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
All mankind love a lover.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Where's the rest of me ?
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Must you flirt ?
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.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Every dog has his day.
For Love is Immortality.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Live your dreams.
Hard work pays off.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
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.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Let thy words be few.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.