Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 19

• We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Life, Fear, Yesterday

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• One returns to the place one came from.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Home, Return

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Self Esteem, Humorous

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

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspiring, Confusion

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.244, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The doors of wisdom are never shut.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Learning

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.105, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Flower, Looks, Emotion

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• Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Dance, Thinking

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

  Indira Gandhi

  Leadership, Progress, Questioning

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of endeavour, August 1969-August 1972”

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Dream

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Simplicity, Taste, Simplifying Life

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Change, Long

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• I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

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• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

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• I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

  Catherine the Great

  Courage, Bravery, Soul

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• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Men, Economic Inequality

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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