Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
"I guess our offense was boring me a little bit" - when asked about dozing off on the sideline.
I am your father.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Cross your bridges.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
We will either find a way or make one.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You create your reality.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
None are homely who smile.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Let thy words be few.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Be the ball.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.