Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
I'm going to take a bath.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Let's roll.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
I am your father.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
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 ?
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Never Quit.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.