Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
You're tearing me apart !
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
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.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
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.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Strike while the iron is hot.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Kindness is always fashionable.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Show me the money !
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Be the ball.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Love is the only gold.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
All you need is love.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.