inspirational Quotes
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Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
Og Mandino
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. Eliot
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Brittany Murphy
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
A. H. Almaas
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
Og Mandino
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As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
Jennifer Hyman
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
R. Kelly
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
Lois Wyse
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
William McFee
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Lucille Clifton
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
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There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it
William Wallace
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When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
Karen Civil
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Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
Andy Rooney
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Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
Hal Elrod
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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
Cheryl Crawford
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I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
William Butler Yeats
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The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.
Neil Sedaka