Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Act or accept.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
A bold onset is half the battle.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Whatever it takes !
Have you checked the children lately ?
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Believe in yourself.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
I'm going to take a bath.
Never, never, never give up.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.