Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Must you flirt ?
Forget about it.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Never spend your money before you have it.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Live with passion !
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The heart that loves is always young.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
To go fast, row slowly.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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 !
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
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.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
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.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
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.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.