Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
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.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Every artist was first an amateur.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Live with passion !
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
They can because they think they can.
This is nothing !
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Love is the only rational act.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
I love a good fight.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
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.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.