Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Be the best that you can be.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
He who hesitates is lost !
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Security is a kind of death.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Don't quit.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
This too, shall pass.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
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.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
I'm king of the world !
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Things do not change we change.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
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.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"