Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Be all you can be.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Remove failure as an option.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The first duty of love is to listen.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The heart that loves is always young.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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 !
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Attitude determines altitude.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
He who has hope has everything.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.