Wilson Mizner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.
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A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
