Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
They alone live, who live for others.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
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.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
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.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Hope springs eternal.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The best things in life are free.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.