Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You're my Lassie come home.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Love is letting go of fear.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
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 ?
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The best things in life are not things.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
No matter where you go, there you are.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Must you flirt ?
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Live with passion.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Sanctuary !
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.