Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you build it, he will come.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
There are no gains without pains.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
You're tearing me apart !
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
One million dollars !
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Cross your bridges.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
It's never too late.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
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.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Better late than never.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.