Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Success is never wondering what if.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Happiness is a state of activity.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Kindness is always fashionable.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
These go to eleven.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Count your blessings.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Every human heart is human.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Don't water your weeds.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You always succeed in producing a result.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Love is a many splendered thing.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You're tearing me apart !
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.