Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Success is never wondering what if.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
This too, shall pass.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Live life to the fullest.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Action is the antidote to despair.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Faith can move mountains.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Be all you can be.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
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.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.