Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
How do you live ?
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
You're tearing me apart !
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
You make me want to be a better man.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I am your father.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.