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Here we start inspiring you with 1001inspiring Quotes. Keep Reading!

1. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable butalso more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

2. A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s awhisper.

3. A pessimist sees only the dark side of clouds and mopes; aphilosopher sees both sides and shrugs, an optimist doesn’t seethe clouds at all-he is walking on them.

4. A pleasant voice multiplies friends and a gracious tonguemultiplies courtsies.

5. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with thebricks that others throw at him or her.- David Brinkley

6. Achievers never expose themselves, but their achievementsexpose them. So, let’s do hard work to become the best in future.

7. Better to wear out than rust out.8. Colours fade, temples crumble, empires fall but wise words

endure.9. Common sense is instinct; and enough of it is genius.10. Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the

ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.- Josh Billings11. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come

alive, and go do it. Because what world needs is people who havecome alive. – Thurman

12. Don’t take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

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13. Dream is not what you see in sleep. It is something whichdoes not let you sleep. – Abdul Kalam Azad

14. Failures are divided into two classes- those who thought butnever did and others who did but never thought. – John CharlesSalak

15. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do whatis goal achieving. – Dennis Waitley

16. For every beauty, there is an eye somewhere to see it. Forevery truth, there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love,there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

17. Forget about all the reasons why something may not work.You only need to find one good reason why it will.- Dr.RobertAnthony

18. Forget about mistakes that you can’t change but don’tforget the lesson that you have learnt.

19. God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change;courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know thedifference...

20. Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plateand not less great is the man to whom all his plates are not morethan earthenware.

21. Greatness has never been found in possessions, power,position or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, serviceand character.

22. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.-Michael Bartel

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23. Hard work spotlights the character of the people: Somepeople turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and somedon’t turn up at all.

24. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intentof throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.-Buddha

25. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs buthow high he bounces when he hits the bottom.

26. If it is your time; love will track you down like a missile. Ifyou say, “No, I don’t want it now”, that’s when you will get it forsure. Love makes way out of no way.

27. If love is your weakest point, then you are the strongestperson in the world.

28. If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe youcan’t, you most assuredly wont. Belief is the ignition switch thatgets you off the launching pad.

29. If you don’t go after what you want, you will never have it. Ifyou don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward,you’re always backward.

30. If you miss an opportunity, don’t close your eyes with tears;keep your vision clear so that you don’t miss the next one.

31. If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s ok. Butyou’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t evenshoot. – Robert Townsend

32. In work, love and life: play hard and play fair.33. It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything

but the best, you very often get it.- W.Somerset Maugham

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34. It’s good to see a man being proud of the place he lives,learns and works in. But its even better to see a man live, learnand work so that his place is proud of him.

35. One should know when to speak, when to pause.- JackBenny

36. Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try ourbest. – H.Jackson

37. Life is just a chance to grow a soul.38. Loving you could take my life, but when I look into your

eyes, I know you are worth that sacrifice.39. Never let your memories be greater than your dreams- Doug

Ivester40. Nothing can stop a man with the right thoughts from

achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help a man with thewrong ones.- Thomas Jefferson

41. Once losing and then regaining is very confidence busting!As we learn a fact, we can earn it back; we just lose the fear oflosing.

42. One may smile and smile and still be a villain43. One of the biggest problems of the world is that the stupid

ones are damn sure and the intelligent ones are full of doubts.44. Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.45. Prayer is the key to the day and bolt of the night.46. Rivers don’t drink the water they carry; Trees don’t eat the

fruit they bear, clouds don’t bath in the rain they produce: so beinvolved but know that nothing is ours.

47. Say nothing when you are giving- only say something whenyou are receiving.

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48. Shraddha no hoy vishay, toh purava ni shu zaroor?! Kuranma toh kyay paygambar ni sahi nathi…(In gujarati)

49. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, mygreatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.-Abraham Lincoln

50. Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of allachievement.- Napoleon Hill

51. Success always kisses you in private but failure always slapsyou in public..

52. Success lies not in the result but in the effort, Being the bestis not at all important, doing the best is all that matters.

53. The older I grow, The more I listen to people who don’t saymuch.- Germain G. Glidden

54. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is toventure a little way past them: into the impossible.

55. The secret code for success: Just try one more time.56. The sign of maturity is not when we start saying big things.

But it actually is when we start understanding small things.57. The Universe is full of beautiful things which surround us all

over. Recognise and accept them. Give as much as you can. Don’tthink too much when its love.

58. The wisest men follow their own directions.- Euripides59. The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the

rest willing to let them.60. There are 2 type of people: those who come into the room n

say, “ Well, here I am!” and those who come and say,” Ah, thereyou are!”.

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61. There is never enough time to do everything, but there isalways enough time to do the most important thing. –Brian Tracy

62. There is no failure except in no longer trying.- ElbertHubbard

63. There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that arehard to come by.

64. There is no way that you can convince anybody that youreally love them. The more we try to do it, the more we do thecontrary.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

65. Things which gave us pleasure now are making us suffer. Ifwe are forced to do something, many times we will want to runaway from it.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

66. Three things cannot be hidden for long: The sun, the moonand the truth. – Buddha

67. Time is so powerful that it is given in small dose of seconds.68. Time is what we want the most, but what we use the worst.-

William Penn69.

To compromise-even to sin- and then to forgive oneself and moveon: this is the true stuff of manhood that life teaches.

70. True miracles are created by men when they use thecourage and intelligence that God has given them.

71. Trust is one thing which can completely transform our lives.You will not sit and worry about the future, but smile through life.

72. Waste no more time talking about great souls and how theyshould be. Become one yourself.- Marcus Aurelius

73. What lies behind us and what lies before us are smallmatters compared to what lies within us.

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74. When a diplomat says “yes”, he means “perhaps”; when hesays “perhaps”, he means “no”; when he says “no”, he is not adiplomat.

75. When circumstances seem to collide in inexplicable ways,the Universe is reaching out to help you.

76. When it rains, all the birds occupy shelter, but eagles aloneavoid the rains by flying above the cloud: Problems are commonto all, but the attitude to see them makes the difference.

77. Whenever you feel you are the best, just keep in mind thatsomeone is getting prepared to beat you.

78. Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.79. You are what you are and where you are because of what

has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and whereyou are by changing what goes in your mind. - Zig Ziglar

80. You cannot change your future, but you can change yourhabits and sure, you habits will change your future.- Bernard Shaw

81. You cannot force love to happen. It is a gift to you. It is aspontaneous phenomenon.

82. You doubt in the goodness of people and not in theirbadness. You doubt when someone says I love you but not whensomeone is angry.

83. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills-Choice is yours. – Jim Rohn.

84. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makeslife interesting.- Paulo Coelho.

85. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.-Walt Disney

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86. Let your heart soar as high as it can: refuse to be average.-A.W.Tozer

87. Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past orthe present are certain to miss the future.- J.F.K

88. The greatest barrier to success: is the FEAR OF FAILURE.89. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with

the troubles.90. It is necessary; therefore it is possible.- G.A.Borghese91. He who wished to secure the good of others has already

secured his own.- Confucius92. Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the

heroic makes heroes.- Benjamin Disraeli93. Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.- Oscar

Wilde94. Your worth consists in what you are and not what you have.-

Thomas Edison95. The moment you think of giving up, think of the reason you

held for so long.96. Dreams do not vanish so long as people do not abandon

them.97. I know what conscience is to begin with. It isn’t what you

told me. It’s the divinest thing in us.-Oscar Wilde98. Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a

better place because you were here.99. Prayer is not asking. It is the longing of the soul.100. Put all your excuses aside and remember; you are capable.-

Zig Ziglar101. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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102. Let’s permit Nature to have Her way. She understands Herbusiness better than we do.

103. Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never berationalized.- G.K.Chesterton

104. If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing itsafe.- Woody Allen

105. Always bear in mind that your resolution to success is moreimportant than any one thing.- Lincoln.

106. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams intosilver and gold. – Khalil Gibran

107. Live out of your imagination, not our history.- StephenCovey

108. I love the light for it shows me the way; yet I endure thedarkness because it shows me the stars.- Og Mandino

109. The best way to get something done is to begin.110. Action may not always bring happiness. But there is no

happiness without action.- Benjamin Disraeli111. To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.-

Emily Dickinson112. The best way to succeed in life is to act on advices we give

the others.113. We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount

of work remains the same.- Carlos Castanede114. Even if you are on the right track, you will just run over if

you just sit there.- Will Rogers115. Live your life such that people will ask for your autograph

and not fingerprints- Chintak Dholakia

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116. There are some people who live in a dream world, and thereare some who face reality and then there are those who turn oneinto the other.- Douglas Everett

117. Trust in your dreams, for in them is the hidden gate toeternity.- Khalil Gibran

118. One good action is better than a million good intentions.People judge themselves by their intentions, yet others by theiractions.

119. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds ofsuccess.- Paramhansa Yogananda

120. Patience is not much about waiting; it’s about how onebehaves while waiting.

121. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say youcan’t do.- Walter Bagehot

122. Do not let, what you cannot do, interfere with what you cando.—John Wooden

123. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing canbe changed unless it is faced.

124. Keep yourself away from people who belittle yourambitions. Small people always do that but the really great makeyou feel that you too can become great.

125. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spiritdrieth the bones.

126. Patience and perseverance have a magical effort beforewhich all the difficulties disappear.- John Q. Adams

127. If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doinganything. I am positive that a doer makes mistakes.

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128. The great thing a little lamp can do which the big sun can’tdo is to give light when it is night. No one is superior by size but bypurpose.

129. What your heart thinks is great is great. The Soul’s emphasisis always right.

130. It is wrong to think that the misfortunes come from the eastor from the west; they originate within one’s own mind.Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from theexternal world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.- Buddha

131. When you are finally up on the moon, and looking back atthe Earth, all those differences and nationalistic baits are prettywell going to blend and you are going to get a concept that,maybe this is really one world and why the hell cant we learn tolive together like decent people?- Frank Borman

132. To safeguard democracy, the people must have a keen senseof independence, self-respect and their oneness.- Gandhi

133. Leave me in induced reality of psychedelic drugs for truth isstranger than fiction in my head.

134. One who understands much displays a greater simplicity ofcharacter than the one who understands little.

135. The more a man knows, the more he forgives.136. The tree doesn’t withdraw its shade from the woodcutter.

So forgive the one who hurts you. They will realize your worthsomeday.

137. If God is in your boat, it doesn’t mean you won’t have toface any storm anymore. It only means no storm can sink yourboat.

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138. In life, the person who brings out the best quality in you andthe one who makes you strong actually becomes your weakness.

139. There is, in this world, no greater force than the force of aman determined to rise.

140. Life shrinks or life expands in proportion to one’s courage.141. A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his

actions.- Confucius142. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between the good

and the evil.143. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. The choice is yours.144. A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks: he

becomes.145. You have to dream before your dreams can come true.-

Kalam146. Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.-

T.Edison147. For the wise man looks into the space and he knows there is

no limited dimensions.- Laozi148. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your

strength lies.- Teresa149. Men aren’t the prisoners of fate or other people, they are

the prisoners of their own mind.- Roosevelt150. Knowing is not enough, we must apply.Willing is not enough,

we must do.151. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment, full effort

in full victory.152. Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived

forwards.

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153. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the lifeyou have imagined.

154. He who is devoid the power to forgive is devoid of power tolove.

155. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in risingevery time we fall.

156. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundancein your life.- Wayne Dyer

157. Shun idleness. It’s a rust that attached itself with the mostbrilliant metals.- Voltaire

158. Every search begins with a beginner’s luck and every searchends with the victors being severely tested.- Paulo Coelho

159. Darkest hour of the night comes before the dawn.160. Where the willingness is great, difficulty can’t be great.161. Don’t seek yourself outside yourself.- Emerson162. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps

with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.163. Performances don’t equal us because we are much more

than our work.164. If everything’s under control, you are going too slow.165. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.166. All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.167. Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Tom Stoppard168. It doesn’t matter how slowly you go up, so long as you don’t

stop.- Confucius169. Joy is not in the things; it is in us.170. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their

power to harm us.- Voltaire

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171. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.-Lincoln

172. The first and the best victory is to conquer oneself.173. Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.174. Whatever good things we build; end up building us.175. The beginning is the most important part of work. – Plato176. A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks

should be.177. We all have the ability. The difference is how we use it.178. There is a wisdom of head and a wisdom of heart.- Charles

Dickens179. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people

or things.- Albert Einstein180. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several

times the same good things for the first time.181. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.182. Don’t fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.-

B.Brecht183. A leader is one who knows where he wants to go and gets

up and goes.- John Erksine184. God is our inner controller, he will certainly listen to our

prayer if its sincere.- Ramakrishna Paramhansa185. The next best thing to winning is losing! Atleast you have

been in the race.- Nellie Hershey Tullis186. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true

power.187. The only place where dream becomes impossible is in your

own thinking.- R.H.Schuller

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188. Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, cease from yourconsideration of it.

189. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fightingwell.- Pierre de Coubertin

190. The greatest part of happiness depends on our dispositions,not our circumstances.-Martha Washington

191. Strength lies in differences, not in similiarities.- StephenCovey

192. If you are headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.

193. The biggest temptation of life is to convert our dreams intoreality; but the biggest defeat of life comes when we surrenderour dreams to reality.

194. Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.195. It matters not how long we live, but how.-Barrie196. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.- William

James197. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing one.-

Benjamin Franklin198. It’s always good to compromise only when the other side

understands your feelings. But it’s not good to bend so much thatyou lose your existence.

199. Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and grass grows byitself.

200. You grow up the day when you have a real laugh atyourself.- Ethel Barrymore

201. I have developed a new philosophy- I only dread one at atime.- Charles Schultz

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202. Sometimes pain is needed to make you grow, failure isneeded to make you gain, because some lessons are learnt best inpain.

203. Its God, who gives, gives and forgives; it’s a man who getsgets and forgets.

204. Adversity causes some people to break, others to breakrecords.- William Ward

205. If you aren’t ready today, you will be even less tomorrow.-Ovid

206. Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.-James Dean

207. Enjoy little things in life, for the day you may look back andrealize they were big things.- A.Smith

208. Nothing splendid has even been achieved except by thosewho dared to believe that something inside them was superior tocircumstance.

209. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability which youhave.

210. The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.211. Do not wait for the ideal circumstances or the best

opportunities, they will never come.212. We much accept finite disappointment but we must never

lose infinite hope.213. That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger.- German

philosopher214. The main thing is to experience that something that does

not change, die or decay in you.

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215. Prayer means not just sitting and saying so many words, butbeing in that serene, calm space, meditative state.

216. Beauty has three levels: Indication, expression andexposure. Spirituality indicates, art expresses and scienceexposes.

217. Bondage is nowhere outside; it is in the mind, in theconsciousness.

218. Something gives you great joy, and then the craving for thegreat joy doesn’t allow you to rest peacefully.

219. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we wouldliterally astound ourselves.- Edison

220. My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most ofwhich never happened.- Montaigne

221. What is man that you are so mindful of him? – Psalm 8:4 (Bible)

222. The biggest enemy of GREAT is GOOD.- Deep Kalra, CEO,makemytrip.com

223. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get,it’s what you are expecting to give-which is everything.

224. We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.-Martha Grimes

225. Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosityor registering wrong.- C.Bronte

226. The future belongs to those who live intensely in thepresent.

227. All acts performed in the world begin in imagination.-Barbara Grizutti Harrison

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228. Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol.- Sir JohnnyWalker

229. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing canbe done without hope and confidence.- Keller

230. Tomorrow is the only day that appeals to a lazy man.231. Say nothing on my religion. Its known to my God and myself

alone.- Thomas Jefferson232. Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs

at.- Goethe233. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.- Elbert

Hubbard234. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.-

Frank Zappa235. When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.-

Leo.F.Buscagila236. He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes

books.- Ben Franklin237. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.-Thales238. It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs that counts.-

Will Rogers239. It’s the test of good religion whether you can joke about it.-

Gilbert Chesterton240. The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of

freedom is courage.- Thucydides241. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all

others.- Swetchine242. Knowing is not enough, we must apply; willing is not

enough, we must do.-Goethe

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243. A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.- ZadokRabinwitz

244. A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words maketempers flare.

245. The biggest adventure you ever take is to live the life youhave dreamt of.- Oprah Winfrey

246. He who lends a book is an idiot, he who returns the book ismore of an idiot.

247. We know nothing about motivation- all we can do is writebook about it.- Peter Drucker

248. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I haveothers.- Groucho Marx

249. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in their world. If youdo, you are insulting yourself.- Hitler

250. No great genius has ever existed without some touch ofmadness.- Aristotle

251. Do not focus on how to spend less money, focus on how toearn more.

252. Would you rather be right or free? – Byron Katie253. There are no accidents. There is only some purpose that we

haven’t yet understood.- Deepak Chopra254. Why give ego more power by resisting it? Opposing it?-

David Hawkins255. The turning point in the process of growing up is when you

discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.256. What you are aware of, you are in control of. What you are

not aware of, is in control of you.-Anthony D Mello

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257. Thoughts are but dreams, till their effects be tried.-Shakespeare

258. It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.259. If expectations are big, God is bigger.260. Give every man thy ear but a few thy voice.- Shakespeare261. He, who moves not forward, goes backward.- J.Wolfgangoon262. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.-

L.Larcon263. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.-

G.Weatherly264. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.-

Anthony Robbins265. Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.266. One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is

to beat them at politeness.267. A bookstore is the only evidence which shows that people

are still thinking.268. What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t

fail?- Robert Schuller269. Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of

this country depends.- Benjamin Disraeli270. Keynes’ famous statement: In long run, we are all

dead.(when asked about the market fluctuations of any economyin the long run)

271. Any crisis is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of thepersonality: it is an opportunity to start afresh.- Sigmund Freud

272. When a man is in a dire need of a miracle, he experiencesone.

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273. Tough times never last, but surely tough people do.- RobertSchuler

274. Expect much from yourself and little from others. And youwill avoid incurring resentments.- Confucius

275. God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying,“Ah...!”..- Khalil Gibran

276. Life is either daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller277. Teaching is more difficult than learning because what

teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, letsnothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore,often produces the impression that we properly learn nothingfrom him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merelythe procurement of useful information.-Martin Heidegger

278. If you can read this, thank a teacher.-Anonymous279. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative

expression and knowledge.-Albert Einstein280. The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless

sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall cometo apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe andwonder.-John Garrett

281. It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not beensurpassed by his students.-Edmond H. Fischer

282. The impending teacher shortage is the most criticaleducation issue we will face in the next decade.-David E. Price

283. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.-Malcolm S. Forbes

284. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly andfreely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise

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people. Everything even mountains, rivers, plants and treesshould be your teacher.-Morihei Ueshiba

285. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing isdemonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others thatthey know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers andteachers.-Richard Bach

286. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give upevery preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whateverabysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.-Thomas H. Huxley

287. To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.- ArleneBenedict, For Mother with Love

288. God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us forour virtues.- Ganeshan Venkatarman, Indian philosopher

289. Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face-George Eliot, English novelist

290. Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts ofchildren.- William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist

291. A mother is she who can take the place of all others.-Cardinal Mermillod

292. A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.-unknown

293. Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts andworries.- unknown

294. For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was themother for the child.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

295. My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard tojustify it.- Marc Chagall

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296. No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.- SarahJosepha Hale

297. The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.-Barbara Kingsolver

298. Mothers are instinctive philosophers.- Harriet BeecherStowe

299. My Mother is my teacher, adviser, and greatest inspiration.-Whitney Houston

300. A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.- GeorgeHerbert

301. A mother loves her children even when they least deserve tobe loved.- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"

302. There is no substitute for mother.- unknown303. Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter

most of all.- Katherine Butler Hathaway, "The Journals and Lettersof the Little Locksmith"

304. When it comes to love, Mom's the word. For all the waysyou've helped me grow, I want to say I love you so.

305. Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to makeit well?....My mother.- Ann Taylor

306. A mother understands what a child does not say.- Jewishproverb

307. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need notbe deserved.- Erich Fromm, psychologist

308. All I am, I owe to my mother.- George Washington, first U.S.president

309. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best ,buthis mother the longest.- Irish proverb

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310. Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that'swhat parents were created for.- Ogden Nash

311. Mother is the home we come from.312. She is nature, soil, ocean.- Erich Fromm, psychologist313. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make

leaning unnecessary.- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)314. Mother brings the sunshine into the house; it is now a

pleasure to be there.- Cecil Beaton, British fashion photographer(1904-80)

315. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human beingto do the impossible.- Unknown

316. One of the oldest human needs is having someone towonder where you are when you don't come home at night...’MOTHER’- Margaret Mead

317. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean yourmother.-Unknown

318. My mother loved children - she would have given anything ifI had been one.- Groucho Marx

319. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules theworld.- W.R. Wallace

320. God could not be everywhere and therefore He mademothers.- Jewish Proverb

321. Mothers are the necessity of invention.- Calvin322. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing

in woman.- William Shakespeare, King Lear323. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.- Henry Ward

Beecher

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324. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother-LinYutang

325. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he alreadyknows.-Epictetus

326. Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed asif a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tenseand anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet andsounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for somethingto happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only Iwas without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowinghow near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordlesscry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that veryhour.-Helen Keller

327. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see everyproblem as a nail.-Abraham Maslow

328. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you canteach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue thelearning process as long as he lives.-Clay P. Bedford

329. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right tobe wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn newthings and move forward with your life. Remember that fearalways lurks behind perfectionism.-David M. Burns

330. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where hisinfluence stops.-Henry B Adams

331. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make you feelthat you, too, can become great.-Mark Twain

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332. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not tolearn, but to unlearn.-Gloria Steinem

333. Children have never been very good at listening to theirelders, but they have never failed to imitate them.-James Baldwin

334. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.-Will Durant

335. The difference between school and life? In school, you’retaught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a testthat teaches you a lesson.-Tom Bodett

336. Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember;involve me and I’ll understand.-Chinese proverb

337. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t needmotivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turnhim around.-Jim Rohm

338. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s thatwhat they learnt the day before was wrong.-Bill Vaughan

339. Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.-ClausMoser

340. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to thehuman soul.-Joseph Addison

341. Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive:easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.-Peter Brougham

342. Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, butdirect them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may bebetter able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of thegenius of each.-Plato

343. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help usescape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but

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from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.-T.S.Eliot

344. If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent wouldever get done.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

345. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take itaway from you.-B.B. King

346. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete isredefining what is humanly possible.- Lance Armstrong

347. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also thefoundation of courage and true progress.- Nicholas Murray Butler

348. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing canbe done without hope or confidence- Helen Keller

349. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but itwill annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.- HermAlbright

350. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,you'll start having positive results.- Willie Nelson

351. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be muchuse being anything else- Winston Churchill

352. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, hebecomes.- Mahatma Gandhi

353. The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a singlestep. Don't wait too long to take your first step- Lao Tzu

354. For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these,'It might have been'.- John Greenleaf Whittier

355. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more thanmuch knowledge that is idle.- Kahlil Gibran

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356. You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.-Irish Proverb

357. Action is the antidote to despair.- Joan Baez358. I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure

suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutralityhelps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages thetormentor, never the tormented.- Elie Wiesel

359. There is a time to let things happen, and a time to makethings happen.- Anonymous

360. If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If aman does more than is required of him, he is a free man.- ChineseProverb

361. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doingeverything you can.- Ashleigh Brilliant

362. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll beable to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.- C.S.Lewis

363. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for goodmen to do nothing.- Edmund Burke

364. Actions speak louder than words.- English Proverb365. The beginning is the half of every action.- Greek Proverb366. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can

change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.-Margaret Mead

367. It matters not how long we live, but how we live.-Barrie368. Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad

memory.- Ingrid Bergman

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369. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another withno loss of enthusiasm.-Winston Churchill

370. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of hisgreat surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn'tdo.-Henry Ford

371. There are one hundred men seeking security to one ableman who is willing to risk his fortune.-Jean Paul Getty

372. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them somuch.-Oscar Wilde

373. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.-Napoleon

374. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can provethat you don't need it.-Bob Hope

375. Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than toopen it and remove all doubt.-Mark Twain

376. Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.-AlbertEinstein

377. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.-Karl Marx378. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20

has wasted 30 years of his life.-Muhammad Ali379. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a

chance to get its pants on.-Winston Churchill380. Men marry women with the hope they will never change.

Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariablythey are both disappointed.-Albert Einstein

381. At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper,look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.-Patrick Moore

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382. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.-John Keats383. To err is human, to forgive divine.-Alexander Pope384. God helps those who help themselves.-Benjamin Franklin385. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish

the rest-Mark twain386. Wealth consists of not in having great possessions but in

having fewer wants –Epicurus387. The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory

but progress-Joseph Joubert388. Life is just a chance to grow a soul.-A. Powell Davies389. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's

the life in your years.-Abraham Lincoln390. Life on the planet is born of woman.-Adrienne Rich391. Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for

the key.-Alan Bennett392. All men have sweetness in their life. That is what helps them

go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.-Albert Camus

393. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with allone's goodness and righteousness.-Albert Einstein

394. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.-AlbertEinstein

395. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:music and cats.-Albert Schweitzer

396. Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward[people], but they are complete and natural only when we feelthis Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for andto help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this

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ethic will become more and more recognized because of its greatnaturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanismtoward which we must strive if our culture is to become trulyethical.-Albert Schweitzer

397. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is whatgives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that goodconsists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and thatdestroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.-Albert Schweitzer

398. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle ofmorality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, andenhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil.Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live,which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is onlypossible for me in that I give myself out for other life.-AlbertSchweitzer

399. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn'tmatter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If artdoesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.-Alice Walker

400. Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise-Alice Walker401. Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.-

Amelia Burr402. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we

have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect astate and remain in it. This is a kind of death.-Anais Nin

403. People living deeply have no fear of death.-Anais Nin404. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths

beyond itself.-Anais Nin

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405. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actionsstems the dream again; and this interdependence produces thehighest form of living.-Anais Nin

406. The most decisive actions of our life ... are most oftenunconsidered actions.-André Gide

407. Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is aprocess.-Annie Dillard

408. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and theywill love you back.-Arthur Rubinstein

409. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matterin the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.-BarbaraKingsolver

410. How is one to live a moral and compassionate existencewhen one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life,when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but withinoneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomestruly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfoldingand accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of suchparadox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because ifall contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.There are simply no answers to some of the great pressingquestions. You continue to live them out, making your life aworthy expression of leaning into the light.-Barry Lopez

411. What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuinehappiness.-Baruch Spinoza

412. A good life is a main argument.-Ben Jonson413. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life

without theory.-Benjamin Disraeli

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414. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that thestuff life is made of.-Benjamin Franklin

415. The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.-Bertrand Russell

416. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in ourhands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how muchwe have we will not be happy because we will always want tohave something else or something more.-Brother David Steindl-Rast

417. Now there is one outstandingly important fact regardingSpaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came withit.-Buckminster Fuller

418. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, ourwhole life would change.-Buddha

419. Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. Itreminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never comeagain. What we leave behind is not as important as how we havelived.-Captain Jean-Luc Picard

420. There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as longas the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot bewithout a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would loseits meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.-Carl Jung

421. Our lives are like a candle in the wind.-Carl Sandburg422. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and

sometimes you weep.-Carl Sandburg423. Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will

not, match the expectation.-Charlotte Bronte

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424. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loafof bread with one, and a lily with the other.-Chinese proverb

425. I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of whatI've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.-Colette

426. Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.-Colette427. Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is asuccession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.-CoritaKent

428. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is tosucceed.-Corita Kent

429. Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power toovercome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing toaffirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; thateverything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond ourunderstanding; and that there is always tomorrow.-DorothyThompson

430. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.-Dorothy Thompson

431. You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendousthing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what'sa life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, and we die. Aspider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all thistrapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying tolift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a littleof that.-E. B. White

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432. Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered throughpersonal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.-Edith Wharton

433. Life is a quest and love a quarrel.-Edna St. Vincent Millay434. Life is just one damned thing after another.-Elbert Hubbard435. Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully .Prepare

prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.-WilliamArthur Ward

436. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by thefireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiositymust be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn hisback on life.-Eleanor Roosevelt

437. People grow through experience if they meet life honestlyand courageously. This is how character is built.-Eleanor Roosevelt

438. I think somehow we learn who we really are and then livewith that decision.-Eleanor Roosevelt

439. The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves livemore intensely for the reading of it.-Elizabeth Drew

440. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.-Emily Dickinson

441. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.-Emily Dickinson

442. Hope is both, the earliest and the most indispensable virtueinherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hopemust remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.-Erik H. Erikson

443. The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is tobe free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself

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which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.-Ernest Becker

444. We now know that the human animal is characterized bytwo great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear oflife and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to thecenter of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basicanxiety of humanity is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well asanxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fearof life, of experience and individuation.-Ernest Becker

445. I think that taking life seriously means something such asthis: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in thelived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of therumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise ofpassion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do weknow that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be arhythm in sorrow?-Ernest Becker

446. If you would not like to be forgotten as soon as you aredead, either write things worth doing or do things worth writing-Benjamin Franklin

447. Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.-Author Unknown448. Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I

promise not to follow it.-Edna St. Vincent Millay449. Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you

will be wise.-Old Proverb450. Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to

believe you know what you’re talking about.-Unknown451. Never answer an anonymous letter-Yogi Berra

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452. A young painter who cannot liberate himself from theinfluence of past generations is digging his own grave.-HenriMatisse

453. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is neverany use to oneself.-Oscar Wilde

454. There is no human problem which could not be solved ifpeople would simply do as I advise.-Gore Vidal

455. It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give goodadvice is absolutely fatal-Oscar Wilde

456. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the verybest advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.-G.K. Chesterton

457. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is tohave nothing whatever to do with it.-William Somerset Maugham

458. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to theafflicted.-Aeschylus

459. Advice is least heeded when most needed-English Proverb460. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen

to writers talking about writing or themselves.-Lillian Hellman461. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.-Carol

Burnett462. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no

man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

463. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldomgoes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.-Jawaharlal Nehru

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464. All charming people have something to conceal, usually theirtotal dependence on the appreciation of others.-Cyril Connolly

465. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think ofwhat you can do with what there is.-Ernest Hemingway

466. The way you give your name to others is a measure of howmuch you like and respect yourself.-Brian Tracy

467. Success is something you attract by the person youbecome.-Jim Rohn

468. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did meany harm... So control what you say to help yourself from thetroubles that arises People begin to become successful the minutethey decide to be.-Harvey MacKay

469. A mind that has been stretched will never return to itsoriginal dimension.-Albert Einstein

470. The only cure for grief is action.-George Henry Lewis471. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.-Babe

Ruth472. The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me.

And I accepted that a long time ago.-Unknown Author473. It would not be better if things happened to men just as they

wish.-Heraclitus474. We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were

only joy in the world. -Hellen Keller475. Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable.

Help them survive in places they find suitable.-Daniel Quinn,Adapted from the proverb on not feeding a fish but teaching howto catch the fish.

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476. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun itand call it hard names.-Henry David Thoreau

477. The important thing in life is not the triumph but thestruggle.-Pierre de Coubertin

478. Most people struggle with life balance simply because theyhaven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.-Stephen Covey

479. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those ofdefeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure butthe deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.-F. ScottFitzgerald

480. In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to bemagnanimous at an inopportune time.-Leon Trotsky

481. A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. Adefeated army first battles and then seeks victory.-Sun Tzu

482. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hardwork. It doesn’t come before.-Shelby Steele

483. If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounterbees.-Thomas Szasz

484. We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with theArabs; we have no place to go.-Golda Meir

485. Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us thepower to battle evil even more.-Ossie Davis

486. One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to adancing star.-Nietzsche

487. Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for one’s ownfaults — ah! — there is the sting of life-Oscar Wilde

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488. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.-Benjamin Disraeli

489. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it,but what he becomes by it.-John Ruskin

490. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by goingbeyond them into the impossible.- Struggle quote by Arthur C.Clarke

491. In the struggle between yourself and the world second theworld.-Franz Kafka

492. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger thewind the stronger the trees.-J. Willard Marriott

493. Try not to become a man of success but rather try tobecome a man of value.-Albert Einstein

494. We are all something, but none of us are everything.-BlaisePascal

495. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and youhelp them to become what they are capable of being.-Goethe

496. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.-Edgar Watson Howe

497. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, tothe strength of the spirit.-Mohandas K. Gandhi

498. The game is not worth the candle.- French proverb499. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.-James Garfield500. An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.-Michael

Korda501. If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-

worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful ofothers-Dalai Lama

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502. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.-Friedrich Engels503. Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are

worthy-Wayne Dyer504. Nothing common can seem worthy of you.-Cicero505. Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem- H. Burke

Peterson506. When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.-Benjamin

Franklin507. An unexamined life is not worth living.-Socrates508. This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those

who can be of no possible value to him.-William Lyon Phelps509. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by

what we give.-Winston Churchill510. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.-

John Ruskin511. Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work

a day in your life- Harvey MacKay512. The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but

the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with aliberal allowance of time.-Henry David Thoreau

513. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There isa visible labor and there is an invisible labor.-Victor Hugo

514. Work while it is called today, for you know not how muchyou will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth twotomorrow’s; never leave that till tomorrow which you can dotoday.-Benjamin Franklin

515. Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.-Pablo Picasso

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516. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word –excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.-PearlS. Buck

517. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from onekind of labor by taking up another.-Anatole France

518. When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.-Henry J.Kaiser

519. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.-Aristotle520. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love

it.-Abraham Lincoln521. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become

the best worker in the world.-Uri Geller522. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed

in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison523. The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.-Ralph

Waldo Emerson524. Saints are sinners who kept on going.-Robert Louis

Stevenson525. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to

success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomesalmost everything, even nature.- John D. Rockefeller

526. One may go a long way after one is tired.-French Proverb527. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find

out they’ve got a second.-William James528. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before

which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.-John Quincy529. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.-

Christopher Morley

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530. Great works are performed not by strength, but byperseverance- Samuel Johnson

531. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ceaseonly at death-A.Eiensten

532. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.-DouglasMacArthur

533. Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and manythings which cannot be overcome when they are together, yieldthemselves up when taken little by little.- Plutarch

534. Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light.Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.-Napoleon Hill

535. Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.-Stephen Kaggwa536. To create a little flower is the labour of ages.- William Blake537. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one

after the other.-Walter Elliot538. It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world, great

achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog-Anonymous

539. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired ofdoing the hard work you already did.- Newt Gingrich

540. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned aboutlife. It goes on.-Robert Frost

541. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is thequickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.-DaleCarnegie

542. Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.-Senecaquotes

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543. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.-Lord Chesterfield

544. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.-Christopher Lasch

545. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us ourappearance only.-Samuel Butler

546. Never frown, because you never know when someone isfalling in love with your smile.

547. The world more often rewards the appearance of merit thanmerit itself-François de la Rochefoucauld

548. Things do not pass for what they are, but for what theyseem. Most things are judged by their jackets.-Baltasar Gracian

549. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he ismade, they greatly improve his appearance.- Henry Ward Beecher

550. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid theappearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actuallyfools.-Alice Walker

551. A new person only knows how you look, not how you are orwhat you are, so mind your appearance.

552. Appearances are often deceiving.553. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished

without passion.- Hebbel554. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never

cease to grow.-Anthony J. D’Angelo555. -The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the

more assuredly the idea, buried deep in your subconscious, willdirect us along the path to its fulfillment.-Earl Nightingale

556. Passion is the genesis of genius.-Anthony Robbins

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557. Follow your passion, and success will follow you.- ArthurBuddhold

558. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; theyare great because of their passion.- Martha Graham

559. So try to pursue the very things that you are passionateabout that is the difference between good and great!-ShawnDoyle

560. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished withoutpassion.- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

561. Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility,like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can giveforth its spark.-Unknown

562. Waste no more time talking about great souls and how theyshould be. Become one yourself!-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

563. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in theabsence but in the mastery of his passions.-Alfred Lord Tennyson

564. Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became aseries of mutually exclusive ‘nows.’-Sue Halpern

565. Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passionsonly makes sense.- Josh Hinds

566. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to bedone, it's always your choice.- Wayne Dyer

567. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.-BenjaminFranklin

568. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for thedesire of the end will point out the means- William Hazlitt

569. I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring torisk.- Oprah Winfrey

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570. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life existselsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact it-Bill Watterson

571. Too many people are thinking of security instead ofopportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.-James F.Byrnes

572. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.-Albert Einstein573. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.-

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.574. There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity-

General Douglas MacArthur575. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased

to be one.-Mark Twain576. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.-Milton Berle577. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great

enterprises.-Demosthenes578. Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power living

latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.-Orison Swett Marden

579. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not haveone, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.-WhitneyYoung, Jr.

580. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. Theoptimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.-WinstonChurchill

581. If you view all the things that happen to you, both good andbad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level ofconsciousness.-Les Brown

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582. Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities.Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.-SwamiVivekananda

583. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.-Francis Bacon

584. Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.-EnglishProverb

585. It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.-George Matthew Adams

586. When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed oftwo characters one represents danger, and the other representsopportunity.-John F. Kennedy

587. Jumping at several small opportunities may get us theremore quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.-HughAllen

588. Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a dailyopportunity.-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

589. It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in lifeand those of opportunity.-Frederick Phillips

590. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for hisopportunity when it comes.-Benjamin Disraeli

591. All great work is preparing yourself for the accident tohappen.-Sidney Lumet

592. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you makea living; the other helps you make a life.-Sandra Carey

593. Wise men speak because they have something to say;Foolsbecause they have to say something.-Plato

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594. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelongattempt to acquire it.-Albert Einstein

595. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is truewisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is truepower.-Lao Tzu

596. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. -Sidonie Gabrielle597. By three methods we may learn wisdom :first, by reflection,

which is noblest ;second, by imitation, which is easiest ;and third,by experience, which is the most bitter.-Confucius

598. In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannotanswer.-Oscar Wilde

599. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant manfollows public opinion.-Chinese Proverbs

600. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannotchange, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom toknow the difference.-Reinhold Niebuhr

601. A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less hespoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we likethat wise old bird?-nursery rhyme

602. The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.-John A.Simone, Sr.

603. The highest form of wisdom is kindness.-The Talmud604. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to

do it, and virtue is doing it.-David Starr Jordan605. A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the

approximate depth of his ignorance.-Gian Carlo Menotti

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606. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud toweep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other thanitself.-Kalil Gibran

607. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous inthe common.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

608. When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it withsilence.-unknown

609. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradictthemselves.-Oscar Wilde

610. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than hewas yesterday.-Abraham Lincoln

611. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circleof those who are.-C.S. Lewis

612. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirelyhappy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.-Epicurus

613. We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failuresthan through our successes. We always think of failure as theantithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the otherside of failure.-Leo F. Buscaglia

614. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’tadjust the goals, adjust the action steps.-Confucius

615. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.-Baltasar Gracian616. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and

evil.-Cicero617. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in

a happy mind.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox618. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise,

to balance it.-George Santayana

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619. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.-Immanuel Kant

620. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubtingwe come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon thetruth.-Pierre Abelard

621. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifestsitself.-Oprah Winfrey

622. Success is going from failure to failure without losing yourenthusiasm.-George S. Patton

623. When I was a young man I noticed that 9 out of 10 things Idid were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I started doing 10times more work.-George Bernard Shaw

624. All my successes have been built on my failures.-BenjaminDisraeli

625. If you don't fail now and again, it’s a sign you're playing itsafe.-Woody Allen

626. The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate.-BillGates

627. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lostalmost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take thegame winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and overagain in my life. And that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan

628. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this timemore wisely.-Henry Ford

629. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won'twork.-Thomas Alva Edison

630. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure withoutlosing your enthusiasm.-Sir Winston Churchill

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631. There is no failure except in no longer trying.-Elbert Hubbard632. Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than

losers, because they stay in the game.-Terry Paulson633. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -

and it works.-William Strong634. No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.-

Napoleon Hill635. If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is

always another chance for you. What we call failure is not thefalling down, but the staying down.-Mary Pickford

636. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means youhaven't succeeded yet.-Robert Schuler

637. There is no failure. Only feedback.-Robert Allen638. Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent

success.-Napoleon Hill639. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every

time we fail.-Confucius640. Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters.

What state of being are you choosing?-Bashar641. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.-Winston

Churchill642. Happiness is an attitude.We either make ourselves

miserable,or happy and strong.The amount of work is the same.-Francesca Reigler

643. If you don't like something change it;if you can't changeit,change the way you think about it.-Mary Engelbreit

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644. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seekhappiness by changing anything but his own disposition will wastehis life in fruitless efforts.-Samuel Johnson

645. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what youdo have.-Ken S. Keyes, Jr.

646. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a humanbeing can alter his life by altering his attitudes.-William James

647. Could we change our attitude,we should not only see lifedifferently,but life itself would come to be different.-KatherineMansfield

648. I am an optimist.It does not seem too much use beinganything else.-Winston Churchill

649. A happy person is not a person in a certain set ofcircumstances,but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.-Hugh Downs

650. A loving person lives in a loving world.A hostile person livesin a hostile world;everyone you meet is your mirror.-Ken Keyes, Jr.

651. People are not disturbed by things,but by the view they takeof them.-Epictetus

652. I have found that if you love life,life will love you back.-Arthur Rubinstein

653. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either makeourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount ofwork is the same.-Carlos Castaneda

654. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Never give it.-Eleanor Roosevelt

655. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps yougoing.-Anonymous

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656. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on oursuccesses and forget about the failures and the negatives in ourlives.-Dennis Waitley

657. A person's worth in this world is estimated according to thevalue they put on themselves.-Jean De La Bruyere

658. Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.-Goethe659. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.-

Baltasar Gracian660. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-

esteem of their personnel.If people believe in themselves,it'samazing what they can accomplish.-Sam Walton

661. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.-Dr. Maxwell Maltz

662. Too many people overvalue what they are not andundervalue what they are.-Malcolm S. Forbes

663. Do not wish to be anything but what you are,and try to bethat perfectly.-St. Francis De Sales

664. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to makeyou something else is the greatest accomplishment.-Ralph WaldoEmerson

665. I was always looking outside myself for strength andconfidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.-AnnaFreud

666. I never loved another person the way I loved myself.-MaeWest

667. Never bend your head.Always hold it high.Look the worldstraight in the face.-Helen Keller

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668. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a uniquebeing,only once on this earth;and by no extraordinary chance willsuch a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as heis,ever be put together a second time.-Friedrich WilhelmNietzsche

669. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.-Oscar Wilde

670. If you want to be respected by others,the great thing is torespect yourself.Only by that, only by self-respect, will you compelothers to respect you.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

671. Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to thebody.-Dr. Maxwell Maltz

672. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the mastercalls a butterfly.-Richard Bach

673. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chancefor you.You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,forthis thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the stayingdown.-Mary Pickford

674. If one dream should fall and break into a thousandpieces,never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and beginagain.-Flavia Weedn

675. The world is round and the place which may seem like theend may also be only the beginning.-Ivy Baker Priest

676. Experience is not what happens to you;it is what you do withwhat happens to you.-Aldous Huxley

677. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.Live the lifeyou have imagined.-Henry David Thoreau

678. And this too, shall pass away.-unknown

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679. When you feel like giving up,remember why you held on forso long in the first place.-unknown

680. Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't,I give myselfreasons why I can.-unknown

681. When one door closes another door opens;but we so oftenlook so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,that we donot see the ones which open for us.-Alexander Graham Bell

682. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses theprize as surely as if he had failed.-William James

683. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know inyour heart you were meant to do.-H.Jackson Brown, Jr.

684. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well underpressure.-unknown

685. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.-Benjamin Spock

686. Adversity is like a strong wind.It tears away from us all butthe things that cannot be torn,so that we see ourselves as wereally are.-Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

687. When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed oftwo characters one represents danger and the other representsopportunity.-John F. Kennedy

688. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief,as though sorrow wouldbe made less by baldness.-Cicero

689. It is better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.-Sister Elizabeth Kenny

690. Every man dies.Not every man truly lives.-Braveheart691. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;courage is

also what it takes to sit down and listen.-Winston Churchill

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692. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.-Balthasar Gracian693. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human

qualities,because it is the quality which guarantees all others.-Winston Churchill

694. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.-ErichFromm

695. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.To not dare isto lose oneself.-Soren Kierkegaard

696. Courage is not the absence of fear,but rather the judgmentthat something else is more important than fear.-AmbroseRedmond

697. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.-Dan Rather698. Fear and courage are brothers.-Proverb699. I'm not funny. What I am is brave.-Lucille Ball700. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your

fears.-Arthur Koestler701. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.-Anais

Nin702. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're

scared to death.-Harold Wilson703. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before

which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.-JohnQuincy Adams

704. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.-John Wayne

705. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence offear.-Mark Twain

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706. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braverfive minutes longer.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

707. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For whileknowledge defines all we currently know and understand,imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.-AlbertEinstein

708. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that neverwere.But without it we go nowhere.-Carl Sagan

709. It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney710. Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.-Madame de

Stael711. The world is but a canvas to the imagination.-Henry David

Thoreau712. Nothing happens unless first we dream.-Carl Sandburg713. Imagination ... its limits are only those of the mind itself.-

Rod Serling714. What is now proved was once imagined.-William Blake715. Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso716. Every great advance in science has issued from a new

audacity of the imagination.-John Dewy717. The real source of wealth and capital in this new erais not

material things...it is the human mind,the human spirit,the humanimagination, and our faith in the future.-Steve Forbes

718. Imagine all the people living life in peace.You may say I'm adreamer, but I'm not the only one.I hope someday you'll join us,and the world will live as one.-John Lennon

719. We are what we imagine ourselves to be.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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720. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.-Les Brown

721. The imagination is how things get done.You have to cultivatecreativity.-Russell Simmons

722. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh,the thinks you can think up if only you try!-Dr. Seuss

723. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.-Michelangelo

724. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to getahead of ourselves, to break our own records,to outstrip ouryesterday by our today.-Stewart B. Johnson

725. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honestbusiness.-Mahatma Gandhi

726. You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be inbusiness tomorrow.-unknown

727. The success combination in business is: Do what you dobetter and do more of what you do.-David Joseph Schwartz

728. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.-Benjamin Franklin729. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to

treat your best customers.-Stephen R. Covey730. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Nothing else can quite substitute They're absolutely free andworth a fortune.-Sam Walton

731. Whenever you see a successful business, someone oncemade a courageous decision.-Peter Drucker

732. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to threewords: people, product and profits.

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733. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with theother two.-Lee Iacocca

734. It is only as we develop others that we permanentlysucceed.-Harvey S. Firestone

735. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth morethan an hour of praise after success.-unknown

736. If you put good people in bad systems you get badresults.You have to water the flowers you want to grow.-StephenR. Covey

737. Those who understand see themselves in all,and all, inthemselves.-Bhagavad-Gita

738. Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains,at thehuge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers,at the vastcompass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; andthey pass by themselves without wondering.-Saint Augustine

739. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market,test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.-Mantak Chia

740. Miracles happen, not in opposition to nature, but inopposition to what we know of nature.-Saint Augustine

741. We are not human beings learning to be spiritual; we arespiritual beings learning to be human.-Jacquelyn Small

742. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.-Richard Bach

743. Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.-BarbaraDeming

744. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.-OttoRank

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745. Life is meant to be extraodinary,our bodies are meant to bevital, and like a candle, burn brightly until their final moment.-Unknown

746. Within each of us lies the power of our consent to healthand to sickness, to riches and to poverty, to freedom and toslavery.It is we who control these things and not nother.-RichardBach

747. Everything in this world has a hidden meaning...People,animals, trees, stars are all hieroglyphics...We think they are reallyonly people, animals, trees, stars.It is only years later... that someof us understand.-Nikos Kazantzakis

748. Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, butsimply points the way.-Florence Scovel Shinn

749. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be yourown, instead of someone else's.-Billy Wilder

750. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before yourhead has figured it out.-Michael Burke

751. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you needto know.-Anthony J. D'Angelo

752. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.-Benjamin Spock

753. Instinct is untaught ability.-Bain754. Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.-Jonas

Salk755. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a

faithful servant. We have created a society that honors theservant and has forgotten the gift.-Albert Einstein

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756. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.-JohnSterling

757. Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filedaway just below the conscious level.-Joyce Brothers

758. A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always actssubconsciously and then thinks ofthe reasons for his action.-Jawaharlal Nehru

759. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into thewilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will bewonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.-Alan Alda

760. The only real valuable thing is intuition.-Albert Einstein761. All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without

reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.-Alexis Carrel762. Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.-Anne

Wilson Schae763. Often you have to rely on intuition.-Bill Gates764. You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice

inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.-Ingrid Bergman

765. Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.-Johann Kaspar Lavater

766. There are things so deep and complex that only intuition canreach it in our stage of development as human beings.-John Astin

767. Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the newinformation society precisely becausethere is so much data.-John Naisbitt

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768. It is through science that we prove, but through intuitionthat we discover.-Jules H.Poincare

769. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before yourhead has figured it out.-Michael

770. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifestsitself.-Oprah Winfrey

771. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routineprocesses of thought and leaps straight from the problem to theanswer.-Robert Graves

772. Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.-John KordLagemann

773. Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to bethe extrasensory perception of reality.-Alexis Carrel

774. It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morningwondering what my Intuition ill toss up to me, like gifts from thesea.I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.-Jonas Salk

775. If you want to play with fire, be ready to burn your fingers.Life is a not a coincidence. It is a series of consequences.

776. It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And somegrim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a greatdeal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what thebattle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory.There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is nosimple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For enduranceand for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit.-Navy SEALMasterchief

777. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men

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with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost aproverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educatedderelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve theproblems of the human race.-John Calvin Coolidge

778. The man who can drive himself further once the effort getspainful is the man who will win.-Roger Bannister

779. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the thingsthat endure. These qualities are so much more important than theevents that occur. -Vince Lombardi

780. The difference between the impossible and the possible liesin a person's determination.-Tommy Lasorda

781. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, andmen are great only if they are determined to be so.-Charles DeGaulle

782. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you todespair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Greatworks are performed not by strength, but perseverance.-SamuelJohnson

783. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it existsand it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mindin which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determinednot to quit until he finds it.-Alexander Graham Bell

784. I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Whyshould the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?-Bible

785. Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even itsexistence on its stated purpose.-Benjamin Disraeli

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786. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the greatdifference between the great and the insignificant, its energy -invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death orvictory.- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

787. You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can doit even better than you think you can.- Jimmy Carter

788. We will either find a way, or make one!-Hannibal789. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench

than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.-Robert Hughes

790. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has itsstages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and avictory. -M.K.Gandhi

791. Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, thatyour success does not depend upon the brilliancy and theimpetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlastingand sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after youhave taken hold.-Dr. A. B. Meldrum

792. A failure establishes only this, that our determination tosucceed was not strong enough.-John Christian Bovey

793. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job athand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, wehave applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.-VinceLombardi

794. The only good luck many great men ever had was being bornwith the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.-Channing Pollock

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795. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutterhammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without asmuch as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow itwill split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but allthat had gone before.-Jacob Riis

796. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don'tturn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it,or work around it.- Michael Jordon

797. Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered withself-control.-Anonymous

798. -What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it existsand it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mindin which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determinednot to quit until he finds it. -Alexander Graham Bell

799. A failure establishes only this, that our determination tosucceed was not strong enough.-Christian Nestell Bovée

800. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attemptdiscarded is another step forward.-Thomas Alva Edison

801. Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman ofour train to opportunity and success.-Burt Lawlor

802. It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to acceptanything but the best, you very often get it.-William SomersetMaugham

803. A resolute determination is the truest wisdom. -Napoleon I804. Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.-

Anthony (Tony) Robbins

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805. It was courage, faith, endurance and a doggeddetermination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.-John J. Watson

806. I learned about the strength you can get from a close familylife. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not todespair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned thatthere are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.-Lee Iacocca

807. A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action isthe right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.-Ronald Reagan

808. He who has a way to live for can bear almost anyhow.-Friedrich Nietzsche

809. It takes people a long time to learn the difference betweentalent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.-Louisa May Alcott

810. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.-GeorgeBernard Shaw

811. Every production of genius must be the production ofenthusiasm.-Benjamin Disraeli

812. This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp theknowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.-Deepak Chopra

813. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.-AlbertEinstein

814. Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire forits vivid power.-Phillips Brooks

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815. If children grew up according to early indications, we shouldhave nothing but geniuses.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

816. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses orsupermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as tobe able to get along under a leadership composed of averagehuman beings.-Peter F. Drucker

817. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage -to move in the opposite direction.-E.F. Schumacker

818. What is genius but the power of expressing a newindividuality?-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

819. You learn something every day if you pay attention. -RayLeBlond

820. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than hewas yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln

821. Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

822. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, tohave one idea spark another.-Marva Collins

823. The wisest mind has something yet to learn. GeorgeSantayana

824. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place ofthose who find learning hard.-Eliphas Levi

825. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, myGod do you learn. -C.S. Lewis

826. Whosoever neglects learning in his youth, loses the past andis dead for the future.-Euripides

827. Much learning does not teach understanding. -Heraclitus

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828. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.-Chinese Proverb

829. I find four great classes of students: The dumb who staydumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. Thewise who remain wise.-Martin H. Fischer

830. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought forwith ardor and attended to with diligence.-Abigail Adams

831. Never seem more learned than the people you are with.Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do notpull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you areasked.- Lord Chesterfield

832. That one is learned who has reduced his learning topractice.- Proverb

833. We learn by example and by direct experience becausethere are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.-Malcolm Gladwell

834. Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiringchange. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiringunderstanding.-William Arthur Ward

835. By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.- LatinProverb

836. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past andenjoy working in the present toward the future. -Denis Waitley

837. Learning never exhausts the mind.- Leonardo da Vinci838. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without

learning is perilous.- Confucius839. A wise teacher makes learning a joy. -Proverb

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840. All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Lookingfor new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they'renot growing... not moving toward excellence.-Denis Waitley

841. No one lives long enough to learn everything they need tolearn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,positively have to find people who have already paid the price tolearn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. -BrianTracy

842. The library is the temple of learning, and learning hasliberated more people than all the wars in history.-Carl T. Rowan

843. A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.-Lillian Gish

844. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge,and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certainanswers. -Martina Horner

845. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike ourbodies, can continue growing as long as we live.- Mortimer Adler

846. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand somethingyou've understood all your life, but in a new way.- Doris Lessing

847. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes usbigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For theworld was built to develop character, and we must learn that thesetbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marchingonward.- Henry Ford

848. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily amongthe followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are theylearning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do theychange with grace? Manage conflict?- Max De Pree

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849. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question andnot finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.-LloydAlexander

850. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcomethe obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excitedme more than the intelligence quotient.-Eugene S. Wilson

851. Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.- W. EdwardsDeming

852. Wisdom is learning what to overlook.- William James853. Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.-Yogi Berra854. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and

do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.-Lord Chesterfield

855. You cannot open a book without learning something.-Confucius

856. I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I askquestions.-Lou Holtz

857. We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks,and less from wise guys.-William Arthur Ward

858. All things good to know are difficult to learn.-Greek Proverb859. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.-

Berthold Auerbach860. Music is everywhere not just in melodies; music can be

heard in the singing of birds, or the loving babble talk of littlebabies-Byron Pulsifer

861. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

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862. I always thought that music was appreciated by all until Imet my first negative thinking person.-Byron Pulsifer

863. There's music in the signing of a reed; There’s music in thegushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears: Theirearth is but an echo of the spheres.-Lord Byron

864. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel nopain.-Bob Marley

865. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.-Charlie Parker

866. If I had only one sense to keep it would be my hearing sothat I could listen to the sounds and music all around me.-ByronPulsifer

867. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use ourimaginations, our possibilities become limitless.-Jamie Paolinetti

868. The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination.-EmilyDickinson

869. He who has imagination without learning has wings but nofeet.-Joseph Joubert

870. Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly inthe corner, purring.-Leslie Grimutter

871. All men who have achieved great things have been greatdreamers.-Orison Swett Marden

872. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.-GeorgeScialabba

873. I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I canhear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannotfeel.-Peter Zarlenga

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874. I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitelymore important than what I can see.-Duane Michals

875. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages toits present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus todiscover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.-L. Frank Baum

876. Live out of your imagination, not your history.-StephenCovey

877. Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quartersof our real life.-Simone Weil

878. Time is not a measure the length of a day or month or yearbut more a measure of what you have accomplished.-ByronPulsifer

879. Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clickedoff by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come tolife.-William Faulkner

880. Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either,but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarseroar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doingall the moving.-Martin Amis

881. Time is not the essence; action using available time is.-ByronPulsifer

882. In reality, killing time is only the name for another of themultifarious ways by which Time kills us.-Osbert Sitwell

883. Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner ofall!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and hishands are mutes.-Charles Dickens

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884. What do most people squander that can never berecaptured is one of the most valuable assets we all have; time isthat asset and what you do with your time can make thedifference or make no difference.-Byron Pulsifer

885. You must have been warned against letting the golden hoursslip by; but some of them are golden only because we let themslip by.-James Matthew Barrie

886. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at,and who steals what is most precious to men: time.-Napoleon I

887. Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy orborrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no mattertheir background or status.-Byron Pulsifer

888. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect,and no more of it than we had earned.-Jane Haddam

889. He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coatof mail that none can pierce.-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

890. If you have no respect for your own values how can you beworthy of respect from others.-Byron Pulsifer

891. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurringthe ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my ownabhorrence.-Frederick Douglass

892. Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It isnever for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. Itcomes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quietplaces, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, wehave done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowingthe truth we have spoken it.-Whitney Griswold

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893. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better todisplease the people by doing what you know is right, than totemporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.-William J.H. Boet

894. Would that there were awards for people who come tounderstand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successfulenough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough.When you have self-respect, you have enough.-Gail Sheehy

895. The individual woman is required... a thousand times a dayto choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescueher good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, orelse follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.-JeannetteRankin

896. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on thework before you, well assured that the right performance of thishour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and agesthat will follow it-Ralph Waldo Emerson

897. When performance exceeds ambition,the overlap is calledsuccess-Cullen Hightower

898. All of us perform better and more willingly when we knowwhy we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.-Zig Ziglar

899. All the great performers I have worked with are fuelled by apersonal dream.-John Eliot

900. How much we like ourselves governs our performance.-Brian Tracy

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901. Performance isn't a matter of who is watching, it is more amatter how your core ethics are built and adhered to.-ByronPulsifer

902. Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.Mistakes are always part of learning. The real dignity of lifeconsists in cultivating a fine attitude towards our own mistakesand those of others. It is the fine tolerance of a fine soul. Manbecomes great, not through never making mistakes, but byprofiting by those he does make; by being satisfied with a singlerendition of a mistake, not encoring it into a continuousperformance; by getting from it the honey of new, regeneratinginspiration with no irritating sting of morbid regret; by buildingbetter to-day because of his poor yesterday; and by rising withrenewed strength, finer purpose and freshened courage everytime he falls.-William Jordan

903. Lack of performance is not related to the quality of yourexcuses.-Byron Pulsifer

904. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; butgreat minds rise above them.-Washington Irving

905. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.-CharlesSchulz

906. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matterscompared to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

907. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-Eleanor Roosevelt

908. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someoneelse.-Erma Bombeck

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909. Every person, all the events of your life are there becauseyou have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them isup to you.-Richard Bach

910. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than ingrowing with them.-Bernard M. Baruch

911. It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.-Jack Benny

912. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.-Confucius

913. Through perseverance many people win success out of whatseemed destined to be certain failure.-Benjamin Disraeli

914. If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. Thehusband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. Youhave to give it to you.-Linda Evans

915. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but inrising every time we fall.-Nelson Mandela

916. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.-Anthony Robbins

917. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past andenjoy working in the present toward the future.-Denis Waitley

918. What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and thework fulfills you, the rest will come.-Oprah Winfrey

919. Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be. -RobertBrowning

920. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as weare. -Henry Ward Beecher

921. Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.-Pat Riley

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922. Like success, failure is many things to many people. WithPositive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rungon the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts inorder and prepare to try again.-W. Clement Stone

923. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine youraltitude.-Zig Ziglar

924. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks foreverything that happens to you, knowing that every step forwardis a step toward achieving something bigger and better than yourcurrent situation.-Brian Tracy

925. You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, oryou can see the challenge as your call to action.-Catherine Pulsifer

926. An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wiseperson is colorblind.-Albert Schweitzer

927. Positive thinking will let you do everything better thannegative thinking will. -Zig Ziglar

928. You cannot control what happens to you, but you cancontrol your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that,you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to masteryou.-Brian Tracy

929. You can do it if you believe you can!-Napoleon Hill930. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having

passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or notclosing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with ahusband, a friend, a child, or a parent.-Barbara Bush

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931. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either forthe first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled withglory.-Betty Smith

932. When you see a man of worth, think of how you mayemulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examineyourself.-Confucius

933. Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure yourpicture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day youdon't look at it and wish you had painted something different.-Author Unknown

934. Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past canbecome the gateways that lead to new beginnings.-Ralph Blum

935. To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish topossess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”-Mohammad Ali

936. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, notevents, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. Ican choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn'tarrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happyin it.-Groucho Marx

937. People take different roads seeking fulfillment andhappiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't meanthey've gotten lost.-Dalai Lama

938. There is one thing about being President, no one can tell youwhen to sit down.-Dwight Eisenhower

939. An eye for an eye makes us all blind.-Mohandas Gandhi

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940. Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down acountry road at night with no lights while looking out the backwindow.-Peter F. Drucker

941. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down theshade.-Tom Peters

942. Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.-KennethBlanchard

943. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you getup.-Vince Lombardi

944. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventionalwisdom.-Sam Walton

945. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.-Arnold H.Glasgow

946. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.-Jim Rohn

947. If you could kick the person in the pants responsible formost of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.-TheodoreRoosevelt

948. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear twovoices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Whybother?"-Sydney J. Harris

949. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.You must break out of your current comfort zone and becomecomfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.-Denis Waitley

950. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream,and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meetwith a success unexpected in common hours.-Henry DavidThoreau

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951. I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread mydreams under your feet.-William Butler Yeats

952. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are thechildren of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimateachievements.-Napoleon Hill

953. If you can dream it, you can do it.-Walt Disney954. We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream

come true.-Denis Waitley955. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.-Henry David

Thoreau956. A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Napoleon Hill957. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never

be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.-W.Clement Stone

958. Do more than dream: work.-William Arthur Ward959. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.-

Eriksson960. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one

knows.-Buddha961. Failure is the tuition you pay for success.-Walter Brunell962. There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to

them.- Tom Krause963. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released

success.- Robert Orben964. Remember that failure is an event, not a person.-Zig Ziglar965. To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.-

Confucius966. Try and fail, but don't fail to try.- Stephen Kaggwa

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967. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, butwe cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.-Michel deMontaigne

968. Knowledgeable doesn't mean arrogant, nor does it meanboasting; instead, those that are knowledgeable show the best ofcharacter when they are more than willing to share and to helpothers move forward in their own understanding and personalgrowth.-Byron Pulsifer

969. I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.-Aeschylus

970. The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.-Bertrand Russell

971. There is no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept thesame idea tomorrow.-Chrisopher Morley

972. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more thanmuch knowledge that is idle.-Kahlil Gibran

973. The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.-Malcolm Forbes

974. If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if youdo read the newspaper, you are misinformed.-Mark Twain

975. Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at thismoment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledgeand use it better.-Mark Van Doren

976. I believe that every person is born with talent.-MayaAngelou

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977. Those who are blessed with the most talent don'tnecessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.-Mary Kay Ash

978. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money;it's the talent and the passion that count in success.-IngridBergman

979. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going tobe forward, backwards, or sideways.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr

980. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silentif no birds sang except those that sang best.-Henry Van Dyke

981. Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire aman for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he doeswith his talent.-Michael Caine

982. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's asundial in the shade?-Benjamin Franklin

983. Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Begrateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.-John Wooden

984. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.-JohannWolfgang von Goethe

985. Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health ofevery man.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

986. Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your pastsmells.- Elizabeth Taylor

987. Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.- JohnPaul Getty

988. One fails forward toward success.-Charles F. Kettering

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989. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or'get rich' in business by being a conformist.- J. P. Getty

990. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting whatyou get.- Dale Carnegie

991. As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk.Fran Watson A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships arefor.-William Shedd

992. Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second baseand keep your foot on first.-Frederick B. Wilcox

993. The only person who never makes mistakes is the personwho never does anything.-Denis Waitley

994. To win you have to risk loss.-Jean Claude Killy995. Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than

taking a risk by changing their work to an area that they love.Sometimes, we fall into the trap of thinking we are secure in ourpositions, and believe it is better to remain where we are ratherthan change jobs.-Catherine Pulsifer

996. Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others,for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act foryourself. Face the truth.-Katherine Mansfield

997. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wingson the way down.-Ray Bradbury

998. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to losesight of the shore for a very long time.-Andre Gide

999. Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.-H. Jackson Browne

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1000. Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But itdoesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.-PaulaDanziger

1001. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ceaseonly at death.- Albert Einstein

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