Inspiration Quotes - Page 27

• There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

  Maimonides

  Kindness, Men, Eight

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Perhaps Love, Youth

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• When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Perfect, Peaceful

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

  Daniel Handler

  Goodbye, Book, Long

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• I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Motivation, Ocean, Intelligent

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• A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  Diana Nyad

  Motivation, Ocean, Athlete

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• In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

  Edith Widder

  Motivation, Ocean, Chemistry

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• Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Lying, Ocean, Knowledge

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• There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Long, Innovation, Pieces

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• We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

  George Lucas

  Life, Dream, Follow Your Dreams

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• Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life And Love, Crazy

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• We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Girl, Crazy

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• Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

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• Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Dating

  John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 4

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• Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Essence

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• When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Intellectual, Fancy

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.261, UPNE

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• A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Men, Ideas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Humor

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• I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Play

  His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

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• He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Useless, Cabbage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Doors, Weather

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Edition”, p.165, ReadHowYouWant.com

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