Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
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.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
We can only learn to love by loving.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Don't quit.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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.
Warriors, come out to play !
Every artist was first an amateur.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
My precious.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
My friends are my estate.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Love knows no bounds.
I'm king of the world !
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Count your blessings.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
As if !
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Show me the money !
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
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.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !