Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Cross your bridges.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Attitude is everything.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
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 ?
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Work is love made manifest.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
They can because they think they can.
Always do the right thing.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.