Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
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.
Love understands all languages.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
You become what you think about.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Success is predictable.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
All you need is love.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Find the good -- and praise it.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
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.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Practice makes perfect.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
High expectations are the key to everything.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The best way out is always through.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It's never too late.
For Love is Immortality.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
We're on a mission from God.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.