Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Forget about it.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Change comes from within.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Say hello to my little friend !
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
We all go a little mad sometimes.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
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.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
This is nothing !
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Security is a kind of death.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.