Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
You had me at hello.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Never Quit.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
No matter where you go, there you are.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Where there is love there is life.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Love is the only gold.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
There's no place like home.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
You're as old as you behave.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You become what you think about.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I don't give a shit.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Do it now !
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
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.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.