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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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.
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I am not a sex symbol.
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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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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.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Kindness eases change.
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
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The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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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.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
