Impressive Quotes

• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Freedom, Mean

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• It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

  Judith Martin

  Humble, Humility, Quality

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

  Denis Waitley

  Wisdom, Deep Thought, Trying

  Denis Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for the 21st Century”, Waitley Institute

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• Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Jobs, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Poetry Is

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics

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• From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of
  inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orquestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution. Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Sacrifice, Long

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• You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Interesting, Ifs

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• Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

  George Lucas

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• I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Causes, Results

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.374, Race Point Pub

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ethos, Progress, Fundamentals

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

  Erwin McManus

  Running, Ifs

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

  Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman

  Writing, Liberty, Particular

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• Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Advertising, Claims, Made

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.35, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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• The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

  Kenneth Williams

  Funny, Giving, Nodding

  Acid Drops preface (1980)

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• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity, Different, Kind

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• I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Civilization, Games

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• The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

  George Chapman

  Failure, Responsibility, Order

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• Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Trying, Doe, Answers

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• If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Beautiful, Dream, Honor

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• It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Levels, Lessons, Calamity

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• Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Magic

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• Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Skills, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Littles, Little Things

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