Famous Quotes quotes
1090 quotes. Authors include A. A. Milne, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Maslow, Aesop, Agatha Christie, Alan Cohen, Alan Watts, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope, Alexander the Great, Alexis Carrel, Alfred Adler, Alfred Korzybski, Alfred Tennyson, Alice Walker, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, Amy Bloom, Amy Poehler, Amy Tan, Anatole France, Anaïs Nin, Andy Rooney, Anne Bradstreet.
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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
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“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.”
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“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.”
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
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“The only journey is the one within.”
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“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
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“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
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“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”
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“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
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“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
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“You can't choose up sides on a round world.”
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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
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“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
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“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
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“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
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“Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.”
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
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“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
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“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
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“The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.”
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“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
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“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
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“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.”
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“Life is what happens while you are making other plans.”
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.”
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“When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.”
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“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
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“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
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“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”