Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Be who you are in every situation.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
What is life without the radiance of love.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Love conquers all.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
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.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Success is the child of audacity.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Live life with passion.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
No wire hangers, ever !
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Success is a journey not a destination.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
There is no education like adversity.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
No involvement, no commitment.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
They alone live, who live for others.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .