Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Union gives strength.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Find the good -- and praise it.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Security is a kind of death.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
You're my Lassie come home.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Act or accept.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Don't fear, just live right.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.