Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Must you flirt ?
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
For Love is Immortality.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
How do you live ?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I am the captain of my soul.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
For with god all things are possible.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Security is a kind of death.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.