Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
It's showtime !
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Snap out of it !
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
They can because they think they can.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
For Love is Immortality.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The first duty of love is to listen.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
If you build it, he will come.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
This is this.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
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.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.