Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Do it now !
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
What is life without the radiance of love.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Our intentions create our reality.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Follow the money.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Faith can move mountains.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The first duty of love is to listen.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !