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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It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
George Carlin
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
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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.
John Lubbock
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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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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Octavia E. Butler
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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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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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.
Antonio Machado
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Code of the Grunt: You ain’t Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.
Dale Dye
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
Ivan Turgenev
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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
Octavia E. Butler
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Mary Oliver
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin