Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Ideas without action are worthless.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
You can do what you want to do.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Don't quit.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Fortune favors the brave.
The world belongs to the energetic.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
For Love is Immortality.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
I light my candle from their torches.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.