Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
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If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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The ladder of success must be set upon something solid before you can start to climb.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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And treat those two impostors just the same.
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Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
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We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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The wise sceptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become president of a great nation.
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Teach yourself and you have a fool for a master.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
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