Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
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.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
I know that I will die laughing.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Real love stories never have endings.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Count your blessings.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I'll have what she's having.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
My life is my message.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Keep away from 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.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Must you flirt ?
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Do or do not, there is no try.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.