Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Old love does not rust.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
None are homely who smile.
The best proof of love is trust.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Love is something eternal.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
What hump ?
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Love is letting go of fear.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You had me at "hello".
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Faith can move mountains.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
You're good, you're very good.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.