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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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
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“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
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“Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.”
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“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
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“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
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“Love is a serious mental disease.”
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“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
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“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
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“You have to believe in yourself.”
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“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
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“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.”
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“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
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“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
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“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
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“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
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“Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.”
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“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
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“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
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“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
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“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
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“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
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“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
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“You won't skid if you stay in a rut.”
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“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
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“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
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“You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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“Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.”
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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.”
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“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
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“You cannot have what you do not want.”
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“If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.”
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“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”
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“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.”
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“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
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“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”