Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
They're called boobs, Ed.
The best way out is always through.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Hard work pays off.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
They are able because they think they are able.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
None are homely who smile.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
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.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
How do I look ?
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
I saw and loved.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You make me want to be a better man.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Be the best that you can be.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.