Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Bring out the gimp.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The best things in life are free.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
You had me at hello.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Every dog has his day.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
We can only learn to love by loving.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Love is a hole in the heart.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Say hello to my little friend !
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
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.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
My heart is ever at your service.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
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.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.