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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“Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.”
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“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
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“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”
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“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
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“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
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“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
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“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
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“Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.”
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“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
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“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
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“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
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“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”
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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
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“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
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“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
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“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
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“Skill to do comes of doing.”
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“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.”
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“I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.”
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“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.”
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“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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“It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.”
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“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
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“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
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“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
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“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
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“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”
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“If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.”
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“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
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“An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.”
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“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”