Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”
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“If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way.”
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“You become what you give your attention to.”
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“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
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“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”
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“And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”
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“Devote the rest of your life to making progress.”
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“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
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“One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary.”
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“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”
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“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.”
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“Confine yourself to the present.”
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
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“Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”
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“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
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“Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things.”
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“The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.”
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“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
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“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, ‘This is misfortune,’ but, ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”
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“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”
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“Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.”
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“Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them.”
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“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”
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“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
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“As fire tests gold, so misfortunate tests brave men.”
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“Be indifferent to what makes no difference.”
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“The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
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“Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”
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“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.”
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“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
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“Better to do a little well than a great deal badly.”
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“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason and against nature.”
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“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
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“If a friend feels upset by you, be the first to try to put things right.”
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“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”
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“Before a crowd, the ignorant are more persuasive than the educated.”
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“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
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“There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.”
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“The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think or do. Only what you do.”
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“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”
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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
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“To move the world, we must first move ourselves.”
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“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.”
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“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
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“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today.”
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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”
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“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
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