Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Fortune favors the brave.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
For Love is Immortality.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Have you checked the children lately ?
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Above all to thine own self be true.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
The best things in life are free.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
You complete me.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I light my candle from their torches.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.