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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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
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“Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.”
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“I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.”
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“If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
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“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”
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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
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“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.”
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“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”
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“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
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“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
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“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
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“There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it.”
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“Change in all things is sweet.”
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“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
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“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
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“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
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“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
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“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
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“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
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“Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
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“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”
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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
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“A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
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“I think and that is all that I am.”
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
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“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
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“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”
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“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
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“Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time.”
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“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
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“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
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“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
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“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
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“Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
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“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
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“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”