Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Only the educated are free.
All mankind love a lover.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
My precious.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
It's never too late.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
We're on a mission from God.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
I know you are, but what am I ?
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Well done is better than well said.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.