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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
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“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
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“Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.”
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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“What worries you masters you.”
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“Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.”
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“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
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“Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
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“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”
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“Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”
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“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
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“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
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“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”
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“What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.”
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“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
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“Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
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“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”
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“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right.”
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“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”
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“Our passion is our strength.”
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”
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“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”
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“I believe that every person is born with talent.”
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“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
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“We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”
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“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
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“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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“True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.”
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
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“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
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“To fly, we have to have resistance.”
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“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
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“Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.”
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“Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.”
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“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”
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“Our distrust is very expensive.”
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“It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others.”
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“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
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“To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.”
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“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”