Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Do it now !
They're here !
We come to beginnings only at the end.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
No involvement, no commitment.
Give all to love.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
You make me want to be a better man.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Practice makes perfect.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
What ever you are be a good one.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
I don't like your manners.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Experience is the best teacher.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Believe in yourself.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Adventure is worthwhile.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.