Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you build it, he will come.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It's always too soon to quit !
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
No one became poor by giving alms.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
We tend to live up to our expectations.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The road to success is always under construction.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I saw and loved.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
What's meant to be will always find a way
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
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.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Would you like to come in ?
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard