Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Don't ever give up.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Reach for the stars.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You talkin to me ?
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
I know that I will die laughing.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Never Quit.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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 ?
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
A woman who is loved always has success.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.