Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
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.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Be the best that you can be.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Cross your bridges.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do or do not, there is no try.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Children are all foreigners.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Old love does not rust.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Seize the day.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in