Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Honesty is the best image.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
This too, shall pass.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Houston, we have a problem.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Must you flirt ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
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.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Open the pod bay doors,
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Honor the ocean of love.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
He who hesitates is lost !
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.