Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
You are what you think you are.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The best things in life are not things.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
They can because they think they can.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Live with passion !
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.