Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Believe in yourself.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
It's good to be the king !
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
We will either find a way or make one.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
I am the captain of my soul.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Things do not change we change.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Love is letting go of fear.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Actions speak louder than words.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Don't fear, just live right.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
You create your reality.