Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Here's looking at you, kid.
There is time for everything.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Success is never wondering what if.
Don't quit.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Ideas without action are worthless.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We'll always have Paris.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Must you flirt ?
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
To go fast, row slowly.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Love is not selfish.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Don't water your weeds.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Cross your bridges.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
You talkin to me ?
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.