Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Somebody stop me !
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Your talent is god's gift to you.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
There are no gains without pains.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Can you dig it ?
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
To know me is to love me.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
My precious.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.