Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
The buck stops here.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Ideas... they have the power
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Action is the antidote to despair.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
I am the captain of my soul.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
All mankind love a lover.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
There are simply too many notes.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Never Quit.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Can you dig it ?
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
We must be the change we wish to see.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
My friends are my estate.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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.
Don't quit.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Go ahead, make my day.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.