Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
God doesn't make junk.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Where's the rest of me ?
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Attitude is everything.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
I don't like your manners.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Every dog has his day.
Know thyself.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
We're sisters under the same mink.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
They're called boobs, Ed.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.