Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Yo, Adrian !
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Love is friendship set on fire.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
They are able because they think they are able.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Happiness is a state of mind.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
A simple I love you means more than money.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
It ain't over till it's over.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
How do I look ?
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Never stop dreaming.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Here's looking at you, kid.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Be the ball.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Live your dreams.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.