Inspirational Wisdom Quotes

• The Soul should always stand ajar.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Experience, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Essays". Volume 2,

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• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

  William Saroyan

  Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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

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  You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 16, 2014

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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