Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
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.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I'll be back.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Well done is better than well said.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Adventure is worthwhile.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Let thy words be few.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Love is friendship set on fire.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Show me the money !
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
If they move, kill ' em.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.