Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
They can because they think they can.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
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.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Hunker down.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
To ask the hard question is simple.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
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.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
If you build it, he will come.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
I know you are, but what am I ?
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I think we deserve a break.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
All work is empty save when there is love.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
There is no education like adversity.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.