Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Houston, we have a problem.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Those who laugh - last!!
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
We'll always have Paris.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
To go fast, row slowly.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Love is not selfish.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
They alone live, who live for others.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
If there is a will, there is a way.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Love knows no bounds.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Success leaves clues.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
We must be the change we wish to see.
A woman who is loved always has success.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.