Inspiring Quotes - Page 14

• If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

  Tom Rath

  Motivational, Leadership, Trying

  Tom Rath, Barry Conchie (2008). “Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.254, Vintage

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Peace, Humor

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

  Emile Zola

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "Dreyfus : His Life and Letters‎" edited by Pierre Dreyfus, (p. 175), 1937.

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Success, Depression

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Simplicity, Littles

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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  I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

  Whitney Houston

  Fashion, Women, Becoming A Woman

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Quitting, Things To Do

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2009

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• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.200, Macmillan

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• If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

  Rick Riordan

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

  John Abercrombie

  Funny, Imperfection, Creative

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• Who said nights were for sleep?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Sleep

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

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Education, Teacher, Honesty

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Thankful, Dog

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Hate, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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