Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many hands make light work.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Truth fears no questions.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
We will either find a way or make one.
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.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Love conquers all.
The past does not equal the future.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
There is no substitute for hard work.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Find the good -- and praise it.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Whatever you are be a good one.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Where's the rest of me ?
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.