Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Would you like to come in ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Never, never, never give up.
You're good, you're very good.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Where's the rest of me ?
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Must you flirt ?
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Never say die.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Keep away from small 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.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Who's on first.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Don't quit.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Children are all foreigners.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.