Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Live life to the fullest.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
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.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
"I guess our offense was boring me a little bit" - when asked about dozing off on the sideline.
Sanctuary !