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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“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
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“Well done is better than well said.”
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“Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.”
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“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
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“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
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“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.”
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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them.”
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“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
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“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”
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“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
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“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”
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“Whoso loves, believes the impossible.”
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
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“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
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“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
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“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
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“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
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“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
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“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
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“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.”
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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
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“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
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“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”
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“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
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“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
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“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
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“Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
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“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”
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“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.”
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“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
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“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
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“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
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“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.”
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
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“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
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“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
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“Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?”