Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You talkin to me ?
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Well, nobody's perfect.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
One man with courage is a majority.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.