Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
They're here !
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
There's no place like home.
If it is to be it is up to me.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Success is never wondering what if.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Keep the Faith.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Be the best that you can be.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
You are what you think you are.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.