Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
They can because they think they can.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The beginning is the half of every action.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
In imagination, there's no limitation.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Live life with passion.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
For with god all things are possible.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
They are able because they think they are able.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
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.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Love those who love you.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.