Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
You make me want to be a better man.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Hunker down.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Be all you can be.
My friends are my estate.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Love is the only gold.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Real love stories never have endings.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
You complete me.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
They can because they think they can.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -