Insperational Quotes - Page 12

• Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Where You Are, Position, Standing

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Marriage, Loving Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

  Josh Billings

  Communication, Anger, Parenting

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Boss

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• When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Shows

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.249

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• Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Drinking, Glasses

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.227

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