Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Attica ! Attica !
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
You can do what you want to do.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Love is friendship set on fire.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Bring out the gimp.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The buck stops here.
The dingo took my baby !
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
To infinity and beyond !
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.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
You complete me.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
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.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
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.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.