Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It's good to be the king !
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
We have not yet begun to fight.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
How do you live ?
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
I'll be back.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
They can because they think they can.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Reach for the stars.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Many hands make light work.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Practice makes perfect.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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.
You complete me.
Live with passion.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Whatever it takes !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.