Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
What hump ?
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
We have not yet begun to fight.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Love is something eternal.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
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
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
I don't give a shit.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Snap out of it !
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Only the educated are free.
Love is a many splendered thing.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.