Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
We rob banks.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Bring out the gimp.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
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What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Find the good -- and praise it.
Ideas... they have the power
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
I'm an excellent driver.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
No one became poor by giving alms.
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.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.