Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.
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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force.
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Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
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Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
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Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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The book you don't read can’t help.
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Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off.
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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.
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The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
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