Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Talkers are no good doers.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Ability is sexless.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
A woman who is loved always has success.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The show must go on.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The buck stops here.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.