Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
How do I look ?
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The road to success is always under construction.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Seize the day.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Happiness is a choice.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
How do you live ?
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Success leaves clues.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Be the ball.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Be all you can be.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
You are what you think about all day long.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Anything is possible.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.