Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Don't dream it be it.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
We rob banks.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Make the second effort your second nature.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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 refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I light my candle from their torches.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.