Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Houston, we have a problem.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
We must be the change we wish to see.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Believe in yourself.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Okay, but I get to be on top.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
It's always too soon to quit !
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
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 !
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
He who has hope has everything.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
God doesn't make junk.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
You're good, you're very good.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Don't fear, just live right.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Better late than never.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Never stop dreaming.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Love is the only gold.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.