Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Hope springs eternal.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
What ever you are be a good one.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Never say die.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Those who laugh - last!!
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Don't dream it be it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Fortune favors the brave.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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''.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.