Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Ideas... they have the power
Old love does not rust.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Attitude determines altitude.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Open the pod bay doors,
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
I know you are, but what am I ?
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Things do not change we change.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
I love a good fight.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
He who has hope has everything.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
You create your reality.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Hard work pays off.
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.