Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
The beginning is the half of every action.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To go fast, row slowly.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You create your reality.
Never complain about what you permit.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
No man is wise enough by himself.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
I'm an excellent driver.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We have not yet begun to fight.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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 most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
What ever you are be a good one.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
There are no gains without pains.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.