Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Ideas... they have the power
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.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
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.
Help me ! Help me !
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Vegas, baby.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
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.
Success is predictable.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
You complete me.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Act or accept.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.