Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Live your life and forget your age.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
I love a good fight.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Keep the Faith.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
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.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Don't water your weeds.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Real love stories never have endings.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.