Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Roll with the punches.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Live with passion !
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Vegas, baby.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You're good, you're very good.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
What hump ?
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
He who hesitates is lost !
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
You become what you think about.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
If you build it, he will come.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Actions speak louder than words.