Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you build it, he will come.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Never say die.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
But I would be proud.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
These go to eleven.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Live with passion !
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
As if !
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
You make me want to be a better man.
Always do the right thing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.