The Top 100 Quotes | Quotesia

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Common sense is not so common. Voltaire

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The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Nicholas Klein

97

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein

96

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. Dr. Seuss

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein

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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

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It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Unknown

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides

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You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi

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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Satchel Paige

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

51

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell

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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles de Gaulle

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. Hans Selye

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Khalil Gibran

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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay

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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell

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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. Richard Bach

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Unknown

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. John Wooden

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln

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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.