Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
As if !
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
It's never too late.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Give all to love.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Be all you can be.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
It's always too soon to quit !
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Can you dig it ?
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.