Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
My heart shall be thy garden.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
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.
Be Here Now.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Where's the rest of me ?
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love that is true never grows old.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Success leaves clues.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Forget about it.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Mr. Christian !
Old love does not rust.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A life lived in fear is half lived.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.