Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The loving are the daring.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Work is love made manifest.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
You make me want to be a better man.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Think and grow rich.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
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.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Above all to thine own self be true.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
To know me is to love me.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
The heart that loves is always young.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
He who hesitates is lost !
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!