Inspirational Quotes - Page 34

• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiring, Graduation, Encouraging

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny Motivational, Procrastination, Famous Motivational

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Positive, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Life, Education, Military

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• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hope, Cheer, Motivation

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  It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Success, Moving On

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, Successful

  "Awaken The Giant Within". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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  The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Meaningful, Witty

  Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Sports, Fitness

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Giving Up

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Laughter, Fun, Regret

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• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Respect, Idols, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Wise, Courage

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Stanford University, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Business, People

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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  Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

  Les Brown

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Men, Ideas

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Life, Trust

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Adversity, Caring, Fire

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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