Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
No involvement, no commitment.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Begin with the end in mind.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Kind words conquer.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
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.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Follow the money.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Would you like to come in ?
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.