Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You only get out what you put in.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Happiness is a state of mind.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Bring out the gimp.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
My heart is ever at your service.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
After your jump, the net appears.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Hope springs eternal.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There are no gains without pains.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Cross your bridges.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Honesty is the best image.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
You're good, you're very good.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.