Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
You betcha !
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The heart that loves is always young.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Live your dreams.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
After your jump, the net appears.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Let's roll.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The sun will come up tomorrow