Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Don't dream it be it.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Hope springs eternal.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The best way out is always through.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
No involvement, no commitment.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
All you need is love.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Think and grow rich.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.