Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
You sing-a high.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
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.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
May you live all the days of your life.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
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.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Our love is here to stay.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
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.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Never Quit.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
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.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.