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Inspiration

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Here we start inspiring you with 1001
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1. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but
also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
2. A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if its a
whisper.
3. A pessimist sees only the dark side of clouds and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides and shrugs, an optimist doesnt see
the clouds at all-he is walking on them.
4. A pleasant voice multiplies friends and a gracious tongue
multiplies courtsies.
5. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the
bricks that others throw at him or her.- David Brinkley
6. Achievers never expose themselves, but their achievements
expose them. So, lets 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 Billings
11. Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive, and go do it. Because what world needs is people who have
come alive. Thurman
12. Dont 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 which
does not let you sleep. Abdul Kalam Azad
14. Failures are divided into two classes- those who thought but
never did and others who did but never thought. John Charles
Salak
15. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what
is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley
16. For every beauty, there is an eye somewhere to see it. For
every 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.Robert
Anthony
18. Forget about mistakes that you cant change but dont
forget 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 the
difference...
20. Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate
and not less great is the man to whom all his plates are not more
than earthenware.
21. Greatness has never been found in possessions, power,
position or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service
and 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: Some
people turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some
dont turn up at all.
24. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent
of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.-
Buddha
25. I dont measure a mans success by how high he climbs but
how high he bounces when he hits the bottom.
26. If it is your time; love will track you down like a missile. If
you say, No, I dont want it now, thats when you will get it for
sure. Love makes way out of no way.
27. If love is your weakest point, then you are the strongest
person in the world.
28. If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you
cant, you most assuredly wont. Belief is the ignition switch that
gets you off the launching pad.
29. If you dont go after what you want, you will never have it. If
you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward,
youre always backward.
30. If you miss an opportunity, dont close your eyes with tears;
keep your vision clear so that you dont miss the next one.
31. If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, its ok. But
youve got to shoot for something. A lot of people dont even
shoot. Robert Townsend
32. In work, love and life: play hard and play fair.
33. Its 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. Its 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, learn
and work so that his place is proud of him.
35. One should know when to speak, when to pause.- Jack
Benny
36. Life doesnt require that we be the best, only that we try our
best. 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
Ivester
40. Nothing can stop a man with the right thoughts from
achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help a man with the
wrong 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 of
losing.
42. One may smile and smile and still be a villain
43. 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 dont drink the water they carry; Trees dont eat the
fruit they bear, clouds dont bath in the rain they produce: so be
involved but know that nothing is ours.
47. Say nothing when you are giving- only say something when
you are receiving.

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48. Shraddha no hoy vishay, toh purava ni shu zaroor?! Kuran
ma toh kyay paygambar ni sahi nathi(In gujarati)
49. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, my
greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.-
Abraham Lincoln
50. Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all
achievement.- Napoleon Hill
51. Success always kisses you in private but failure always slaps
you in public..
52. Success lies not in the result but in the effort, Being the best
is not at all important, doing the best is all that matters.
53. The older I grow, The more I listen to people who dont say
much.- Germain G. Glidden
54. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture 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. Dont
think too much when its love.
58. The wisest men follow their own directions.- Euripides
59. 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, there
you are!.

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61. There is never enough time to do everything, but there is
always enough time to do the most important thing. Brian Tracy
62. There is no failure except in no longer trying.- Elbert
Hubbard
63. There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are
hard to come by.
64. There is no way that you can convince anybody that you
really love them. The more we try to do it, the more we do the
contrary.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
65. Things which gave us pleasure now are making us suffer. If
we are forced to do something, many times we will want to run
away from it.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
66. Three things cannot be hidden for long: The sun, the moon
and 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 Penn
69.
To compromise-even to sin- and then to forgive oneself and move
on: this is the true stuff of manhood that life teaches.
70. True miracles are created by men when they use the
courage 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 they
should be. Become one yourself.- Marcus Aurelius
73. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small
matters compared to what lies within us.

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74. When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he
says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is not a
diplomat.
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 alone
avoid the rains by flying above the cloud: Problems are common
to all, but the attitude to see them makes the difference.
77. Whenever you feel you are the best, just keep in mind that
someone 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 where
you are by changing what goes in your mind. - Zig Ziglar
80. You cannot change your future, but you can change your
habits 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 a
spontaneous phenomenon.
82. You doubt in the goodness of people and not in their
badness. You doubt when someone says I love you but not when
someone is angry.
83. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills-
Choice is yours. Jim Rohn.
84. Its the possibility of having a dream come true that makes
life 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 or
the 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.Borghese
91. He who wished to secure the good of others has already
secured his own.- Confucius
92. Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the
heroic makes heroes.- Benjamin Disraeli
93. Experience is one thing you cant get for nothing.- Oscar
Wilde
94. Your worth consists in what you are and not what you have.-
Thomas Edison
95. 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 isnt what you
told me. Its the divinest thing in us.-Oscar Wilde
98. 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 Ziglar
101. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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102. Lets permit Nature to have Her way. She understands Her
business better than we do.
103. Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be
rationalized.- G.K.Chesterton
104. If you dont fail now and again, its a sign youre playing it
safe.- Woody Allen
105. Always bear in mind that your resolution to success is more
important than any one thing.- Lincoln.
106. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into
silver and gold. Khalil Gibran
107. Live out of your imagination, not our history.- Stephen
Covey
108. I love the light for it shows me the way; yet I endure the
darkness 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 Disraeli
111. To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.-
Emily Dickinson
112. 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 Castanede
114. Even if you are on the right track, you will just run over if
you just sit there.- Will Rogers
115. 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 there
are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one
into the other.- Douglas Everett
117. Trust in your dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to
eternity.- Khalil Gibran
118. One good action is better than a million good intentions.
People judge themselves by their intentions, yet others by their
actions.
119. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of
success.- Paramhansa Yogananda
120. Patience is not much about waiting; its about how one
behaves while waiting.
121. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you
cant do.- Walter Bagehot
122. Do not let, what you cannot do, interfere with what you can
do.John Wooden
123. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can
be changed unless it is faced.
124. Keep yourself away from people who belittle your
ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make
you feel that you too can become great.
125. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
126. Patience and perseverance have a magical effort before
which all the difficulties disappear.- John Q. Adams
127. If youre not making mistakes, then youre not doing
anything. 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 cant
do is to give light when it is night. No one is superior by size but by
purpose.
129. What your heart thinks is great is great. The Souls emphasis
is always right.
130. It is wrong to think that the misfortunes come from the east
or from the west; they originate within ones own mind.
Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the
external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.- Buddha
131. When you are finally up on the moon, and looking back at
the Earth, all those differences and nationalistic baits are pretty
well 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 to
live together like decent people?- Frank Borman
132. To safeguard democracy, the people must have a keen sense
of independence, self-respect and their oneness.- Gandhi
133. Leave me in induced reality of psychedelic drugs for truth is
stranger than fiction in my head.
134. One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of
character than the one who understands little.
135. The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
136. The tree doesnt withdraw its shade from the woodcutter.
So forgive the one who hurts you. They will realize your worth
someday.
137. If God is in your boat, it doesnt mean you wont have to
face any storm anymore. It only means no storm can sink your
boat.

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138. In life, the person who brings out the best quality in you and
the one who makes you strong actually becomes your weakness.
139. There is, in this world, no greater force than the force of a
man determined to rise.
140. Life shrinks or life expands in proportion to ones courage.
141. A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his
actions.- Confucius
142. 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.-
Kalam
146. Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.-
T.Edison
147. For the wise man looks into the space and he knows there is
no limited dimensions.- Laozi
148. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your
strength lies.- Teresa
149. Men arent the prisoners of fate or other people, they are
the prisoners of their own mind.- Roosevelt
150. 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 life
you have imagined.
154. He who is devoid the power to forgive is devoid of power to
love.
155. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising
every time we fall.
156. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance
in your life.- Wayne Dyer
157. Shun idleness. Its a rust that attached itself with the most
brilliant metals.- Voltaire
158. Every search begins with a beginners luck and every search
ends 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 cant be great.
161. Dont seek yourself outside yourself.- Emerson
162. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
163. Performances dont equal us because we are much more
than our work.
164. If everythings under control, you are going too slow.
165. Its 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 Stoppard
168. It doesnt matter how slowly you go up, so long as you dont
stop.- Confucius
169. 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. Plato
176. 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
Dickens
179. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people
or things.- Albert Einstein
180. 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. Dont fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.-
B.Brecht
183. A leader is one who knows where he wants to go and gets
up and goes.- John Erksine
184. God is our inner controller, he will certainly listen to our
prayer if its sincere.- Ramakrishna Paramhansa
185. The next best thing to winning is losing! Atleast you have
been in the race.- Nellie Hershey Tullis
186. 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 your
consideration of it.
189. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting
well.- 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.- Stephen
Covey
192. If you are headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-
turns.
193. The biggest temptation of life is to convert our dreams into
reality; but the biggest defeat of life comes when we surrender
our dreams to reality.
194. Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
195. It matters not how long we live, but how.-Barrie
196. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.- William
James
197. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing one.-
Benjamin Franklin
198. Its always good to compromise only when the other side
understands your feelings. But its not good to bend so much that
you lose your existence.
199. Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and grass grows by
itself.
200. You grow up the day when you have a real laugh at
yourself.- Ethel Barrymore
201. I have developed a new philosophy- I only dread one at a
time.- Charles Schultz

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202. Sometimes pain is needed to make you grow, failure is
needed to make you gain, because some lessons are learnt best in
pain.
203. Its God, who gives, gives and forgives; its a man who gets
gets and forgets.
204. Adversity causes some people to break, others to break
records.- William Ward
205. If you arent 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 and
realize they were big things.- A.Smith
208. Nothing splendid has even been achieved except by those
who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to
circumstance.
209. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability which you
have.
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
philosopher
214. 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, but
being in that serene, calm space, meditative state.
216. Beauty has three levels: Indication, expression and
exposure. Spirituality indicates, art expresses and science
exposes.
217. Bondage is nowhere outside; it is in the mind, in the
consciousness.
218. Something gives you great joy, and then the craving for the
great joy doesnt allow you to rest peacefully.
219. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves.- Edison
220. My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of
which 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,
its what you are expecting to give-which is everything.
224. We dont 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 animosity
or registering wrong.- C.Bronte
226. The future belongs to those who live intensely in the
present.
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 Johnny
Walker
229. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can
be 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 Jefferson
232. Nothing shows a mans character more than what he laughs
at.- Goethe
233. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.- Elbert
Hubbard
234. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.-
Frank Zappa
235. When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.-
Leo.F.Buscagila
236. He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes
books.- Ben Franklin
237. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.-Thales
238. Its not what you pay a man, but what he costs that counts.-
Will Rogers
239. Its the test of good religion whether you can joke about it.-
Gilbert Chesterton
240. The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of
freedom is courage.- Thucydides
241. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all
others.- Swetchine
242. Knowing is not enough, we must apply; willing is not
enough, we must do.-Goethe

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243. A mans dreams are an index to his greatness.- Zadok
Rabinwitz
244. A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make
tempers flare.
245. The biggest adventure you ever take is to live the life you
have dreamt of.- Oprah Winfrey
246. He who lends a book is an idiot, he who returns the book is
more of an idiot.
247. We know nothing about motivation- all we can do is write
book about it.- Peter Drucker
248. Those are my principles. If you dont like them, I have
others.- Groucho Marx
249. Dont compare yourself with anyone in their world. If you
do, you are insulting yourself.- Hitler
250. No great genius has ever existed without some touch of
madness.- Aristotle
251. Do not focus on how to spend less money, focus on how to
earn more.
252. Would you rather be right or free? Byron Katie
253. There are no accidents. There is only some purpose that we
havent yet understood.- Deepak Chopra
254. Why give ego more power by resisting it? Opposing it?-
David Hawkins
255. 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. Its 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.- Shakespeare
261. He, who moves not forward, goes backward.- J.Wolfgangoon
262. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.-
L.Larcon
263. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.-
G.Weatherly
264. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.-
Anthony Robbins
265. 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 wouldnt
fail?- Robert Schuller
269. Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of
this country depends.- Benjamin Disraeli
270. Keynes famous statement: In long run, we are all
dead.(when asked about the market fluctuations of any economy
in the long run)
271. Any crisis is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the
personality: it is an opportunity to start afresh.- Sigmund Freud
272. When a man is in a dire need of a miracle, he experiences
one.

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273. Tough times never last, but surely tough people do.- Robert
Schuler
274. Expect much from yourself and little from others. And you
will 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 Keller
277. Teaching is more difficult than learning because what
teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets
nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore,
often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing
from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely
the procurement of useful information.-Martin Heidegger
278. If you can read this, thank a teacher.-Anonymous
279. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.-Albert Einstein
280. The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless
sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come
to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and
wonder.-John Garrett
281. It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been
surpassed by his students.-Edmond H. Fischer
282. The impending teacher shortage is the most critical
education issue we will face in the next decade.-David E. Price
283. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.-Malcolm S. Forbes
284. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and
freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise

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people. Everything even mountains, rivers, plants and trees
should be your teacher.-Morihei Ueshiba
285. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is
demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that
they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and
teachers.-Richard Bach
286. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever
abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.-Thomas H. Huxley
287. To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.- Arlene
Benedict, For Mother with Love
288. God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for
our 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 of
children.- 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 and
worries.- unknown
294. For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the
mother for the child.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
295. My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to
justify it.- Marc Chagall

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296. No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.- Sarah
Josepha Hale
297. The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.-
Barbara Kingsolver
298. Mothers are instinctive philosophers.- Harriet Beecher
Stowe
299. My Mother is my teacher, adviser, and greatest inspiration.-
Whitney Houston
300. A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.- George
Herbert
301. A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to
be loved.- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"
302. There is no substitute for mother.- unknown
303. Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter
most of all.- Katherine Butler Hathaway, "The Journals and Letters
of the Little Locksmith"
304. When it comes to love, Mom's the word. For all the ways
you'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 make
it well?....My mother.- Ann Taylor
306. A mother understands what a child does not say.- Jewish
proverb
307. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not
be 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 ,but
his mother the longest.- Irish proverb

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310. Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's
what parents were created for.- Ogden Nash
311. Mother is the home we come from.
312. She is nature, soil, ocean.- Erich Fromm, psychologist
313. 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 being
to do the impossible.- Unknown
316. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to
wonder 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 your
mother.-Unknown
318. My mother loved children - she would have given anything if
I had been one.- Groucho Marx
319. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the
world.- W.R. Wallace
320. God could not be everywhere and therefore He made
mothers.- Jewish Proverb
321. Mothers are the necessity of invention.- Calvin
322. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing
in woman.- William Shakespeare, King Lear
323. 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-Lin
Yutang
325. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already
knows.-Epictetus
326. Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as
if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense
and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and
sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something
to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I
was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing
how near the harbor was. Light! Give me light! was the wordless
cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very
hour.-Helen Keller
327. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every
problem as a nail.-Abraham Maslow
328. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can
teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the
learning process as long as he lives.-Clay P. Bedford
329. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to
be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new
things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear
always lurks behind perfectionism.-David M. Burns
330. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence 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 feel
that you, too, can become great.-Mark Twain

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332. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to
learn, but to unlearn.-Gloria Steinem
333. Children have never been very good at listening to their
elders, 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, youre
taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, youre given a test
that teaches you a lesson.-Tom Bodett
336. Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember;
involve me and Ill understand.-Chinese proverb
337. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesnt need
motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn
him around.-Jim Rohm
338. People learn something every day, and a lot of times its that
what they learnt the day before was wrong.-Bill Vaughan
339. Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.-Claus
Moser
340. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the
human 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, but
direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be
better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the
genius of each.-Plato
343. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us
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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 would
ever get done.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
345. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it
away from you.-B.B. King
346. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is
redefining what is humanly possible.- Lance Armstrong
347. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.- Nicholas Murray Butler
348. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can
be done without hope or confidence- Helen Keller
349. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it
will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.- Herm
Albright
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 much
use being anything else- Winston Churchill
352. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he
becomes.- Mahatma Gandhi
353. The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single
step. 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 than
much 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 Baez
358. I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure
suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality
helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the
tormentor, never the tormented.- Elie Wiesel
359. There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make
things happen.- Anonymous
360. If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a
man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.- Chinese
Proverb
361. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing
everything you can.- Ashleigh Brilliant
362. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be
able 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 good
men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke
364. Actions speak louder than words.- English Proverb
365. The beginning is the half of every action.- Greek Proverb
366. 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.-Barrie
368. 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 with
no loss of enthusiasm.-Winston Churchill
370. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his
great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't
do.-Henry Ford
371. There are one hundred men seeking security to one able
man who is willing to risk his fortune.-Jean Paul Getty
372. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so
much.-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 prove
that you don't need it.-Bob Hope
375. Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to
open it and remove all doubt.-Mark Twain
376. Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.-Albert
Einstein
377. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.-Karl Marx
378. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.-Muhammad Ali
379. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a
chance to get its pants on.-Winston Churchill
380. Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably
they 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 Keats
383. To err is human, to forgive divine.-Alexander Pope
384. God helps those who help themselves.-Benjamin Franklin
385. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest-Mark twain
386. Wealth consists of not in having great possessions but in
having fewer wants Epicurus
387. The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory
but progress-Joseph Joubert
388. Life is just a chance to grow a soul.-A. Powell Davies
389. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's
the life in your years.-Abraham Lincoln
390. Life on the planet is born of woman.-Adrienne Rich
391. Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for
the key.-Alan Bennett
392. 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 all
one's goodness and righteousness.-Albert Einstein
394. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.-Albert
Einstein
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 feel
this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and
to 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 great
naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism
toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly
ethical.-Albert Schweitzer
397. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what
gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good
consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that
destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.-Albert Schweitzer
398. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of
morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and
enhancing 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 only
possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.-Albert
Schweitzer
399. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't
matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art
doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.-Alice Walker
400. Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise-Alice Walker
401. Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.-
Amelia Burr
402. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we
have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a
state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.-Anais Nin
403. People living deeply have no fear of death.-Anais Nin
404. 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 actions
stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the
highest form of living.-Anais Nin
406. The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often
unconsidered actions.-Andr Gide
407. Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a
process.-Annie Dillard
408. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they
will love you back.-Arthur Rubinstein
409. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter
in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.-Barbara
Kingsolver
410. How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence
when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life,
when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within
oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes
truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding
and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such
paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if
all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing
questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a
worthy expression of leaning into the light.-Barry Lopez
411. What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine
happiness.-Baruch Spinoza
412. A good life is a main argument.-Ben Jonson
413. 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 the
stuff 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 our
hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much
we have we will not be happy because we will always want to
have something else or something more.-Brother David Steindl-
Rast
417. Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding
Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with
it.-Buckminster Fuller
418. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our
whole life would change.-Buddha
419. Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It
reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come
again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have
lived.-Captain Jean-Luc Picard
420. There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long
as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be
without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose
its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.-Carl Jung
421. Our lives are like a candle in the wind.-Carl Sandburg
422. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and
sometimes you weep.-Carl Sandburg
423. 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 loaf
of 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 what
I'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.-Colette
427. Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a
succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.-Corita
Kent
428. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to
succeed.-Corita Kent
429. Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to
overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to
affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that
everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our
understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.-Dorothy
Thompson
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 tremendous
thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's
a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, and we die. A
spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this
trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to
lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little
of that.-E. B. White

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432. Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through
personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.-
Edith Wharton
433. Life is a quest and love a quarrel.-Edna St. Vincent Millay
434. Life is just one damned thing after another.-Elbert Hubbard
435. Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully .Prepare
prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.-William
Arthur Ward
436. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the
fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity
must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his
back on life.-Eleanor Roosevelt
437. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly
and courageously. This is how character is built.-Eleanor Roosevelt
438. I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live
with that decision.-Eleanor Roosevelt
439. The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live
more 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 virtue
inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope
must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.-
Erik H. Erikson
443. The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to
be 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 by
two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of
life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the
center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic
anxiety of humanity is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as
anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear
of life, of experience and individuation.-Ernest Becker
445. I think that taking life seriously means something such as
this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the
lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the
rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.
Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of
passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we
know that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a
rhythm in sorrow?-Ernest Becker
446. If you would not like to be forgotten as soon as you are
dead, either write things worth doing or do things worth writing-
Benjamin Franklin
447. Dont take advice and dont give advice.-Author Unknown
448. Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I
promise not to follow it.-Edna St. Vincent Millay
449. Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you
will be wise.-Old Proverb
450. Give advice to your children while theyre young enough to
believe you know what youre talking about.-Unknown
451. Never answer an anonymous letter-Yogi Berra

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452. A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the
influence of past generations is digging his own grave.-Henri
Matisse
453. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never
any use to oneself.-Oscar Wilde
454. There is no human problem which could not be solved if
people would simply do as I advise.-Gore Vidal
455. It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good
advice is absolutely fatal-Oscar Wilde
456. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very
best 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 to
have nothing whatever to do with it.-William Somerset Maugham
458. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the
afflicted.-Aeschylus
459. Advice is least heeded when most needed-English Proverb
460. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say dont listen
to writers talking about writing or themselves.-Lillian Hellman
461. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.-Carol
Burnett
462. 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 seldom
goes 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 their
total dependence on the appreciation of others.-Cyril Connolly
465. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of
what you can do with what there is.-Ernest Hemingway
466. The way you give your name to others is a measure of how
much you like and respect yourself.-Brian Tracy
467. Success is something you attract by the person you
become.-Jim Rohn
468. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me
any harm... So control what you say to help yourself from the
troubles that arises People begin to become successful the minute
they decide to be.-Harvey MacKay
469. A mind that has been stretched will never return to its
original dimension.-Albert Einstein
470. The only cure for grief is action.-George Henry Lewis
471. You just cant beat the person who never gives up.-Babe
Ruth
472. The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me.
And I accepted that a long time ago.-Unknown Author
473. It would not be better if things happened to men just as they
wish.-Heraclitus
474. We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were
only joy in the world. -Hellen Keller
475. Dont 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 how
to catch the fish.

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476. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it
and call it hard names.-Henry David Thoreau
477. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the
struggle.-Pierre de Coubertin
478. Most people struggle with life balance simply because they
havent paid the price to decide what is really important to them.-
Stephen Covey
479. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of
defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but
the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.-F. Scott
Fitzgerald
480. In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be
magnanimous at an inopportune time.-Leon Trotsky
481. A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A
defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.-Sun Tzu
482. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard
work. It doesnt come before.-Shelby Steele
483. If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter
bees.-Thomas Szasz
484. We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the
Arabs; we have no place to go.-Golda Meir
485. Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the
power to battle evil even more.-Ossie Davis
486. One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a
dancing star.-Nietzsche
487. Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for ones own
faults 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 mans 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 going
beyond them into the impossible.- Struggle quote by Arthur C.
Clarke
491. In the struggle between yourself and the world second the
world.-Franz Kafka
492. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the
wind the stronger the trees.-J. Willard Marriott
493. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to
become a man of value.-Albert Einstein
494. We are all something, but none of us are everything.-Blaise
Pascal
495. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you
help 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, to
the strength of the spirit.-Mohandas K. Gandhi
498. The game is not worth the candle.- French proverb
499. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.-James Garfield
500. An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.-Michael
Korda
501. If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-
worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of
others-Dalai Lama

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502. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.-Friedrich Engels
503. Self-worth comes from one thing thinking that you are
worthy-Wayne Dyer
504. Nothing common can seem worthy of you.-Cicero
505. Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem- H. Burke
Peterson
506. When the wells dry, we know the worth of water.-Benjamin
Franklin
507. An unexamined life is not worth living.-Socrates
508. This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those
who can be of no possible value to him.-William Lyon Phelps
509. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
what we give.-Winston Churchill
510. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.-
John Ruskin
511. Find something you love to do and youll never have to work
a day in your life- Harvey MacKay
512. The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but
the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a
liberal allowance of time.-Henry David Thoreau
513. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is
a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.-Victor Hugo
514. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much
you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two
tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do
today.-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.-Pearl
S. Buck
517. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one
kind of labor by taking up another.-Anatole France
518. When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.-Henry J.
Kaiser
519. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.-Aristotle
520. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love
it.-Abraham Lincoln
521. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become
the best worker in the world.-Uri Geller
522. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison
523. The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
524. Saints are sinners who kept on going.-Robert Louis
Stevenson
525. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to
success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes
almost everything, even nature.- John D. Rockefeller
526. One may go a long way after one is tired.-French Proverb
527. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find
out theyve got a second.-William James
528. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.-John Quincy
529. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.-
Christopher Morley

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530. Great works are performed not by strength, but by
perseverance- Samuel Johnson
531. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease
only at death-A.Eiensten
532. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.-Douglas
MacArthur
533. Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many
things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield
themselves 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 dont fail to try.-Stephen Kaggwa
536. To create a little flower is the labour of ages.- William Blake
537. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one
after the other.-Walter Elliot
538. 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 of
doing the hard work you already did.- Newt Gingrich
540. In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about
life. It goes on.-Robert Frost
541. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it that is the
quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.-Dale
Carnegie
542. Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.-Seneca
quotes

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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 our
appearance only.-Samuel Butler
546. Never frown, because you never know when someone is
falling in love with your smile.
547. The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than
merit itself-Franois de la Rochefoucauld
548. Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they
seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.-Baltasar Gracian
549. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is
made, they greatly improve his appearance.- Henry Ward Beecher
550. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the
appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually
fools.-Alice Walker
551. A new person only knows how you look, not how you are or
what you are, so mind your appearance.
552. Appearances are often deceiving.
553. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished
without passion.- Hebbel
554. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never
cease to grow.-Anthony J. DAngelo
555. -The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the
more assuredly the idea, buried deep in your subconscious, will
direct 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.- Arthur
Buddhold
558. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they
are great because of their passion.- Martha Graham
559. So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate
about that is the difference between good and great!-Shawn
Doyle
560. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without
passion.- 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 give
forth its spark.-Unknown
562. Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they
should be. Become one yourself!-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
563. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the
absence but in the mastery of his passions.-Alfred Lord Tennyson
564. Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a
series of mutually exclusive nows.-Sue Halpern
565. Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions
only makes sense.- Josh Hinds
566. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be
done, it's always your choice.- Wayne Dyer
567. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.-Benjamin
Franklin
568. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the
desire of the end will point out the means- William Hazlitt
569. I believe that one of lifes greatest risks is never daring to
risk.- Oprah Winfrey

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570. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact it-
Bill Watterson
571. Too many people are thinking of security instead of
opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.-James F.
Byrnes
572. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.-Albert Einstein
573. 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 MacArthur
575. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased
to be one.-Mark Twain
576. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.-Milton Berle
577. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises.-Demosthenes
578. 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 have
one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.-Whitney
Young, Jr.
580. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.-Winston
Churchill
581. If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and
bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of
consciousness.-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.-Swami
Vivekananda
583. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.-
Francis Bacon
584. Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.-English
Proverb
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 of
two characters one represents danger, and the other represents
opportunity.-John F. Kennedy
587. Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there
more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.-Hugh
Allen
588. Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily
opportunity.-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
589. It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life
and those of opportunity.-Frederick Phillips
590. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes.-Benjamin Disraeli
591. All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to
happen.-Sidney Lumet
592. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make
a living; the other helps you make a life.-Sandra Carey
593. Wise men speak because they have something to say;Fools
because they have to say something.-Plato

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594. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong
attempt to acquire it.-Albert Einstein
595. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true
power.-Lao Tzu
596. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. -Sidonie Gabrielle
597. 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 cannot
answer.-Oscar Wilde
599. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man
follows public opinion.-Chinese Proverbs
600. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to
know the difference.-Reinhold Niebuhr
601. A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he
spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like
that 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 Talmud
604. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to
do it, and virtue is doing it.-David Starr Jordan
605. 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 to
weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than
itself.-Kalil Gibran
607. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in
the common.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
608. When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with
silence.-unknown
609. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict
themselves.-Oscar Wilde
610. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he
was yesterday.-Abraham Lincoln
611. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle
of those who are.-C.S. Lewis
612. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely
happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.-Epicurus
613. We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures
than through our successes. We always think of failure as the
antithesis of success, but it isnt. Success often lies just the other
side of failure.-Leo F. Buscaglia
614. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont
adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.-Confucius
615. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.-Baltasar Gracian
616. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and
evil.-Cicero
617. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in
a happy mind.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
618. 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 doubting
we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the
truth.-Pierre Abelard
621. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests
itself.-Oprah Winfrey
622. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm.-George S. Patton
623. When I was a young man I noticed that 9 out of 10 things I
did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I started doing 10
times more work.-George Bernard Shaw
624. All my successes have been built on my failures.-Benjamin
Disraeli
625. If you don't fail now and again, its a sign you're playing it
safe.-Woody Allen
626. The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate.-Bill
Gates
627. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost
almost 300 games. Twenty-six times Ive been trusted to take the
game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over
again in my life. And that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan
628. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time
more wisely.-Henry Ford
629. I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that won't
work.-Thomas Alva Edison
630. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without
losing your enthusiasm.-Sir Winston Churchill

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631. There is no failure except in no longer trying.-Elbert Hubbard
632. Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than
losers, because they stay in the game.-Terry Paulson
633. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -
and it works.-William Strong
634. No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.-
Napoleon Hill
635. If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is
always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the
falling down, but the staying down.-Mary Pickford
636. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you
haven't succeeded yet.-Robert Schuler
637. There is no failure. Only feedback.-Robert Allen
638. Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent
success.-Napoleon Hill
639. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every
time we fail.-Confucius
640. Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters.
What state of being are you choosing?-Bashar
641. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.-Winston
Churchill
642. 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 change
it,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 seek
happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste
his life in fruitless efforts.-Samuel Johnson
645. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you
do have.-Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
646. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human
being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.-William James
647. Could we change our attitude,we should not only see life
differently,but life itself would come to be different.-Katherine
Mansfield
648. I am an optimist.It does not seem too much use being
anything else.-Winston Churchill
649. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances,but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.-
Hugh Downs
650. A loving person lives in a loving world.A hostile person lives
in a hostile world;everyone you meet is your mirror.-Ken Keyes, Jr.
651. People are not disturbed by things,but by the view they take
of 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 make
ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of
work 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 you
going.-Anonymous

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656. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our
successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our
lives.-Dennis Waitley
657. A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the
value they put on themselves.-Jean De La Bruyere
658. Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.-Goethe
659. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.-
Baltasar Gracian
660. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-
esteem of their personnel.If people believe in themselves,it's
amazing 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 and
undervalue what they are.-Malcolm S. Forbes
663. Do not wish to be anything but what you are,and try to be
that perfectly.-St. Francis De Sales
664. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest accomplishment.-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
665. I was always looking outside myself for strength and
confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.-Anna
Freud
666. I never loved another person the way I loved myself.-Mae
West
667. Never bend your head.Always hold it high.Look the world
straight in the face.-Helen Keller

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668. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique
being,only once on this earth;and by no extraordinary chance will
such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he
is,ever be put together a second time.-Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche
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 to
respect yourself.Only by that, only by self-respect, will you compel
others to respect you.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
671. Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the
body.-Dr. Maxwell Maltz
672. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master
calls a butterfly.-Richard Bach
673. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance
for you.You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,for
this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying
down.-Mary Pickford
674. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand
pieces,never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin
again.-Flavia Weedn
675. The world is round and the place which may seem like the
end may also be only the beginning.-Ivy Baker Priest
676. Experience is not what happens to you;it is what you do with
what happens to you.-Aldous Huxley
677. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.Live the life
you 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 for
so long in the first place.-unknown
680. Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't,I give myself
reasons why I can.-unknown
681. When one door closes another door opens;but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,that we do
not see the ones which open for us.-Alexander Graham Bell
682. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the
prize as surely as if he had failed.-William James
683. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in
your heart you were meant to do.-H.Jackson Brown, Jr.
684. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under
pressure.-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 but
the things that cannot be torn,so that we see ourselves as we
really are.-Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
687. When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of
two characters one represents danger and the other represents
opportunity.-John F. Kennedy
688. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief,as though sorrow would
be 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.-Braveheart
691. 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 Gracian
693. 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.-Erich
Fromm
695. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.To not dare is
to lose oneself.-Soren Kierkegaard
696. Courage is not the absence of fear,but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose
Redmond
697. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.-Dan Rather
698. Fear and courage are brothers.-Proverb
699. I'm not funny. What I am is brave.-Lucille Ball
700. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your
fears.-Arthur Koestler
701. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.-Anais
Nin
702. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're
scared to death.-Harold Wilson
703. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.-John
Quincy 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 of
fear.-Mark Twain

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706. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver
five minutes longer.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
707. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while
knowledge defines all we currently know and understand,
imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.-Albert
Einstein
708. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never
were.But without it we go nowhere.-Carl Sagan
709. It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney
710. Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.-Madame de
Stael
711. The world is but a canvas to the imagination.-Henry David
Thoreau
712. Nothing happens unless first we dream.-Carl Sandburg
713. Imagination ... its limits are only those of the mind itself.-
Rod Serling
714. What is now proved was once imagined.-William Blake
715. Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso
716. Every great advance in science has issued from a new
audacity of the imagination.-John Dewy
717. The real source of wealth and capital in this new erais not
material things...it is the human mind,the human spirit,the human
imagination, and our faith in the future.-Steve Forbes
718. Imagine all the people living life in peace.You may say I'm a
dreamer, 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 cultivate
creativity.-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 get
ahead of ourselves, to break our own records,to outstrip our
yesterday by our today.-Stewart B. Johnson
725. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest
business.-Mahatma Gandhi
726. You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in
business tomorrow.-unknown
727. The success combination in business is: Do what you do
better and do more of what you do.-David Joseph Schwartz
728. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.-Benjamin Franklin
729. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to
treat your best customers.-Stephen R. Covey
730. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Nothing else can quite substitute They're absolutely free and
worth a fortune.-Sam Walton
731. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once
made a courageous decision.-Peter Drucker
732. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three
words: people, product and profits.

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733. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the
other two.-Lee Iacocca
734. It is only as we develop others that we permanently
succeed.-Harvey S. Firestone
735. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more
than an hour of praise after success.-unknown
736. If you put good people in bad systems you get bad
results.You have to water the flowers you want to grow.-Stephen
R. Covey
737. Those who understand see themselves in all,and all, in
themselves.-Bhagavad-Gita
738. Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains,at the
huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers,at the vast
compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and
they 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 in
opposition to what we know of nature.-Saint Augustine
741. We are not human beings learning to be spiritual; we are
spiritual 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.-Barbara
Deming
744. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.-Otto
Rank

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745. Life is meant to be extraodinary,our bodies are meant to be
vital, and like a candle, burn brightly until their final moment.-
Unknown
746. Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health
and to sickness, to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to
slavery.It is we who control these things and not nother.-Richard
Bach
747. Everything in this world has a hidden meaning...People,
animals, trees, stars are all hieroglyphics...We think they are really
only people, animals, trees, stars.It is only years later... that some
of us understand.-Nikos Kazantzakis
748. Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but
simply points the way.-Florence Scovel Shinn
749. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your
own, instead of someone else's.-Billy Wilder
750. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your
head has figured it out.-Michael Burke
751. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need
to know.-Anthony J. D'Angelo
752. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.-
Benjamin Spock
753. Instinct is untaught ability.-Bain
754. Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.-Jonas
Salk
755. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.-Albert Einstein

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756. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.-John
Sterling
757. Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed
away just below the conscious level.-Joyce Brothers
758. A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts
subconsciously and then thinks of
the 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 the
wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be
wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.-Alan Alda
760. The only real valuable thing is intuition.-Albert Einstein
761. All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without
reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.-Alexis Carrel
762. Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.-Anne
Wilson Schae
763. Often you have to rely on intuition.-Bill Gates
764. 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 can
reach it in our stage of development as human beings.-John Astin
767. Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new
information society precisely because
there is so much data.-John Naisbitt

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768. It is through science that we prove, but through intuition
that we discover.-Jules H.Poincare
769. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your
head has figured it out.-Michael
770. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests
itself.-Oprah Winfrey
771. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine
processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the
answer.-Robert Graves
772. Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.-John Kord
Lagemann
773. Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be
the extrasensory perception of reality.-Alexis Carrel
774. It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my Intuition ill toss up to me, like gifts from the
sea.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 some
grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great
deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the
battle, 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 no
simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance
and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit.-Navy SEAL
Masterchief
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 a
proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.-John Calvin Coolidge
778. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets
painful is the man who will win.-Roger Bannister
779. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things
that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the
events that occur. -Vince Lombardi
780. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies
in a person's determination.-Tommy Lasorda
781. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and
men are great only if they are determined to be so.-Charles De
Gaulle
782. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to
despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great
works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.-Samuel
Johnson
783. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind
in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined
not to quit until he finds it.-Alexander Graham Bell
784. I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why
should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?-
Bible
785. Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its
existence on its stated purpose.-Benjamin Disraeli

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786. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great
difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy -
invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or
victory.- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
787. You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do
it even better than you think you can.- Jimmy Carter
788. We will either find a way, or make one!-Hannibal
789. 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 its
stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a
victory. -M.K.Gandhi
791. Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that
your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the
impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting
and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you
have taken hold.-Dr. A. B. Meldrum
792. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to
succeed was not strong enough.-John Christian Bovey
793. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at
hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we
have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.-Vince
Lombardi
794. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born
with 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 stonecutter
hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it
will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all
that had gone before.-Jacob Riis
796. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't
turn 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 with
self-control.-Anonymous
798. -What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind
in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined
not to quit until he finds it. -Alexander Graham Bell
799. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to
succeed was not strong enough.-Christian Nestell Bove
800. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt
discarded is another step forward.-Thomas Alva Edison
801. Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of
our train to opportunity and success.-Burt Lawlor
802. Its a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it.-William Somerset
Maugham
803. A resolute determination is the truest wisdom. -Napoleon I
804. 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 dogged
determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.-
John J. Watson
806. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family
life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to
despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that
there 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 is
the 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 between
talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.-
Louisa May Alcott
810. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.-George
Bernard Shaw
811. Every production of genius must be the production of
enthusiasm.-Benjamin Disraeli
812. This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the
knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.-
Deepak Chopra
813. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.-Albert
Einstein
814. Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for
its vivid power.-Phillips Brooks

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815. If children grew up according to early indications, we should
have nothing but geniuses.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
816. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or
supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to
be able to get along under a leadership composed of average
human 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 new
individuality?-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
819. You learn something every day if you pay attention. -Ray
LeBlond
820. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he
was 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, to
have one idea spark another.-Marva Collins
823. The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George
Santayana
824. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of
those who find learning hard.-Eliphas Levi
825. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my
God do you learn. -C.S. Lewis
826. Whosoever neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and
is 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 stay
dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The
wise who remain wise.-Martin H. Fischer
830. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for
with 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 not
pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are
asked.- Lord Chesterfield
832. That one is learned who has reduced his learning to
practice.- Proverb
833. We learn by example and by direct experience because
there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.-
Malcolm Gladwell
834. Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring
change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring
understanding.-William Arthur Ward
835. By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.- Latin
Proverb
836. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and
enjoy working in the present toward the future. -Denis Waitley
837. Learning never exhausts the mind.- Leonardo da Vinci
838. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without
learning is perilous.- Confucius
839. A wise teacher makes learning a joy. -Proverb

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840. All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking
for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're
not growing... not moving toward excellence.-Denis Waitley
841. No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to
learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,
positively have to find people who have already paid the price to
learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. -Brian
Tracy
842. The library is the temple of learning, and learning has
liberated 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 certain
answers. -Martina Horner
845. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our
bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.- Mortimer Adler
846. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something
you've understood all your life, but in a new way.- Doris Lessing
847. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us
bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the
world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the
setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching
onward.- Henry Ford
848. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among
the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they
learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they
change with grace? Manage conflict?- Max De Pree

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849. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and
not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.-Lloyd
Alexander
850. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome
the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited
me more than the intelligence quotient.-Eugene S. Wilson
851. Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.- W. Edwards
Deming
852. Wisdom is learning what to overlook.- William James
853. Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.-Yogi Berra
854. 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 ask
questions.-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 Proverb
859. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.-
Berthold Auerbach
860. Music is everywhere not just in melodies; music can be
heard in the singing of birds, or the loving babble talk of little
babies-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 I
met my first negative thinking person.-Byron Pulsifer
863. There's music in the signing of a reed; Theres music in the
gushing of a rill; Theres music in all things, if men had ears: Their
earth is but an echo of the spheres.-Lord Byron
864. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no
pain.-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 so
that I could listen to the sounds and music all around me.-Byron
Pulsifer
867. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our
imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.-Jamie Paolinetti
868. The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination.-Emily
Dickinson
869. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no
feet.-Joseph Joubert
870. Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in
the corner, purring.-Leslie Grimutter
871. All men who have achieved great things have been great
dreamers.-Orison Swett Marden
872. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.-George
Scialabba
873. I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can
hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot
feel.-Peter Zarlenga

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874. I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely
more important than what I can see.-Duane Michals
875. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to
its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to
discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.-
L. Frank Baum
876. Live out of your imagination, not your history.-Stephen
Covey
877. Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters
of our real life.-Simone Weil
878. Time is not a measure the length of a day or month or year
but more a measure of what you have accomplished.-Byron
Pulsifer
879. Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked
off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to
life.-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 hoarse
roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing
all the moving.-Martin Amis
881. Time is not the essence; action using available time is.-Byron
Pulsifer
882. In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the
multifarious ways by which Time kills us.-Osbert Sitwell
883. Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of
all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his
hands are mutes.-Charles Dickens

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884. What do most people squander that can never be
recaptured is one of the most valuable assets we all have; time is
that asset and what you do with your time can make the
difference or make no difference.-Byron Pulsifer
885. You must have been warned against letting the golden hours
slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them
slip 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 or
borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter
their 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 coat
of mail that none can pierce.-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
890. If you have no respect for your own values how can you be
worthy of respect from others.-Byron Pulsifer
891. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring
the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own
abhorrence.-Frederick Douglass
892. Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is
never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It
comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet
places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we
have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing
the truth we have spoken it.-Whitney Griswold

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893. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.-
William J.H. Boet
894. Would that there were awards for people who come to
understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful
enough. 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 day
to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue
her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or
else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-
respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.-Jeannette
Rankin
896. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the
work before you, well assured that the right performance of this
hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages
that will follow it-Ralph Waldo Emerson
897. When performance exceeds ambition,the overlap is called
success-Cullen Hightower
898. All of us perform better and more willingly when we know
why 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 a
personal 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 a
matter how your core ethics are built and adhered to.-Byron
Pulsifer
902. Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.
Mistakes are always part of learning. The real dignity of life
consists in cultivating a fine attitude towards our own mistakes
and those of others. It is the fine tolerance of a fine soul. Man
becomes great, not through never making mistakes, but by
profiting by those he does make; by being satisfied with a single
rendition of a mistake, not encoring it into a continuous
performance; by getting from it the honey of new, regenerating
inspiration with no irritating sting of morbid regret; by building
better to-day because of his poor yesterday; and by rising with
renewed strength, finer purpose and freshened courage every
time he falls.-William Jordan
903. Lack of performance is not related to the quality of your
excuses.-Byron Pulsifer
904. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.-Washington Irving
905. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.-Charles
Schulz
906. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared 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 someone
else.-Erma Bombeck

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909. Every person, all the events of your life are there because
you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is
up to you.-Richard Bach
910. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in
growing 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 what
seemed destined to be certain failure.-Benjamin Disraeli
914. If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The
husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You
have to give it to you.-Linda Evans
915. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in
rising 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 and
enjoy working in the present toward the future.-Denis Waitley
918. What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the
work fulfills you, the rest will come.-Oprah Winfrey
919. Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be. -Robert
Browning
920. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we
are. -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. With
Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung
on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in
order and prepare to try again.-W. Clement Stone
923. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your
altitude.-Zig Ziglar
924. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for
everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward
is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your
current situation.-Brian Tracy
925. You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or
you 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 wise
person is colorblind.-Albert Schweitzer
927. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than
negative thinking will. -Zig Ziglar
928. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can
control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that,
you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master
you.-Brian Tracy
929. You can do it if you believe you can!-Napoleon Hill
930. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having
passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not
closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a
husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.-Barbara Bush

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931. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for
the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with
glory.-Betty Smith
932. When you see a man of worth, think of how you may
emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine
yourself.-Confucius
933. Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your
picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you
don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.-
Author Unknown
934. Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can
become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.-Ralph Blum
935. To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to
possess 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, not
events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I
can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't
arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy
in it.-Groucho Marx
937. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and
happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean
they've gotten lost.-Dalai Lama
938. There is one thing about being President, no one can tell you
when 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 a
country road at night with no lights while looking out the back
window.-Peter F. Drucker
941. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the
shade.-Tom Peters
942. Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.-Kenneth
Blanchard
943. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get
up.-Vince Lombardi
944. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional
wisdom.-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 for
most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.-Theodore
Roosevelt
948. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two
voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why
bother?"-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 become
comfortable 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 meet
with a success unexpected in common hours.-Henry David
Thoreau

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951. I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my
dreams under your feet.-William Butler Yeats
952. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the
children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate
achievements.-Napoleon Hill
953. If you can dream it, you can do it.-Walt Disney
954. We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream
come true.-Denis Waitley
955. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.-Henry David
Thoreau
956. A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Napoleon Hill
957. 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 Ward
959. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.-
Eriksson
960. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one
knows.-Buddha
961. Failure is the tuition you pay for success.-Walter Brunell
962. There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to
them.- Tom Krause
963. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released
success.- Robert Orben
964. Remember that failure is an event, not a person.-Zig Ziglar
965. To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.-
Confucius
966. 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, but
we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.-Michel de
Montaigne
968. Knowledgeable doesn't mean arrogant, nor does it mean
boasting; instead, those that are knowledgeable show the best of
character when they are more than willing to share and to help
others move forward in their own understanding and personal
growth.-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 people
who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the
same idea tomorrow.-Chrisopher Morley
972. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than
much 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 you
do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.-Mark Twain
975. Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this
moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge
and use it better.-Mark Van Doren
976. I believe that every person is born with talent.-Maya
Angelou

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977. Those who are blessed with the most talent don't
necessarily 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.-Ingrid
Bergman
979. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to
be forward, backwards, or sideways.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr
980. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.-Henry Van Dyke
981. Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a
man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does
with his talent.-Michael Caine
982. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a
sundial in the shade?-Benjamin Franklin
983. Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be
grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.-John Wooden
984. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.-Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
985. Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of
every man.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
986. Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past
smells.- Elizabeth Taylor
987. Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.- John
Paul 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 what
you 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 are
for.-William Shedd
992. Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base
and keep your foot on first.-Frederick B. Wilcox
993. The only person who never makes mistakes is the person
who never does anything.-Denis Waitley
994. To win you have to risk loss.-Jean Claude Killy
995. 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 our
positions, and believe it is better to remain where we are rather
than 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 for
yourself. Face the truth.-Katherine Mansfield
997. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings
on the way down.-Ray Bradbury
998. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose
sight 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 it
doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.-Paula
Danziger
1001. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease
only at death.- Albert Einstein

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