Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Real love stories never have endings.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Don't dream it be it.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
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.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
To know me is to love me.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The truth is more important than the facts.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
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.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.