Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
God doesn't make junk.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Embrace your inner voice.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Well done is better than well said.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Remove failure as an option.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
If you build it, he will come.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Reach for the stars.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
No wire hangers, ever !
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The best things in life are not things.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
We'll always have Paris.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Rosebud.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts