Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Live with passion !
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
No one became poor by giving alms.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
As if !
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There are no gains without pains.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
I'll be back.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?