Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
These go to eleven.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
I don't like your manners.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Go ahead, make my day.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Love that is true never grows old.
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
It ain't over till it's over.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
My heart shall be thy garden.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Snap out of it !
If it is to be it is up to me.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Don't fear, just live right.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
This is nothing !
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.