Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
As if !
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
It's showtime !
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
You're tearing me apart !
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Always do the right thing.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
The book you don't read cant help.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.