Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Octavia E. Butler
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
Jane Austen
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.
Gary Frank
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler
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India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.
Yoshiro Mori
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Barbara Pym
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I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.
Jeremy Allaire
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
J. C. Ryle
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent
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Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
Rain
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brené Brown
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
Benjamin Hoff
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
Rachel Kushner
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The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.
Narciso Rodriguez
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Bruce Lee