Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Work is love made manifest.
Sanctuary !
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Count your blessings.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
They alone live, who live for others.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Ability is sexless.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Would you like to come in ?
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
Hope springs eternal.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Do it now !
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.