Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Can you dig it ?
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Think and grow rich.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Never say more than is necessary.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
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.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Remove failure as an option.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Snap out of it !
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
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.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Believe in yourself.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.