Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The past does not equal the future.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
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.
All mankind love a lover.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
The road to success is always under construction.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Don't dream it be it.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
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.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Give all to love.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The show must go on.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.