Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
I am the captain of my soul.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
One million dollars !
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.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Come, let us make love deathless.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Those who laugh - last!!
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You create your reality.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Hunker down.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
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 ?
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
I don't like your manners.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.