Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Always do the right thing.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If you love someone, set them free.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
You sing-a high.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The best things in life are not things.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Don't think it, ink it.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Get busy living or get busy dying.