Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Who's on first.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Love that is true never grows old.
Somebody stop me !
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
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
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Ideas... they have the power
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Happy wife, happy life.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Seize the day.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Love is a many splendered thing.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Let thy words be few.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
It's always too soon to quit !
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.