Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
What a dump.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
He who has hope has everything.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Bring out the gimp.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Attica ! Attica !
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.