Be Inspired
Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
All work is empty save when there is love.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
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.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Somebody stop me !
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
What hump ?
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Vegas, baby.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
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.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Well done is better than well said.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
He who hesitates is lost.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Adventure is worthwhile.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.