Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Begin with the end in mind.
Don't think it, ink it.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Keep the Faith.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Live with passion !
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
He who hesitates is lost !
After your jump, the net appears.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
He who hesitates is lost.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The loving are the daring.
Love is the only rational act.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.