Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
There are no gains without pains.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
If you build it, he will come.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Live with passion !
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The best things in life are free.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We will either find a way or make one.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Don't water your weeds.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It's always too soon to quit !
I think we deserve a break.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.