Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Rosebud.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Know thyself.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Attica ! Attica !
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Success is never wondering what if.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Give all to love.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
If you build it, he will come.
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.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The beginning is the half of every action.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
No wire hangers, ever !
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The world belongs to the energetic.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.