Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best You Quotes from famous persons: Abraham Lincoln, Zoe Kravitz, Michelle Obama, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, George Carlin. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the You Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
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You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
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You are just your intelligence.
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I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.
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You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
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When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
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You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
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If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
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If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
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Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
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It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.
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Employees are a company‘s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
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If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
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Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
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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.
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Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
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Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
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If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
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If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
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You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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Art is anything you can get away with.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
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You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
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Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
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Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
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You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
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The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.
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The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
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Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
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If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
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You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
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If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
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If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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As you think, so shall you become.
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You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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You can’t fix stupid.
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
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To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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Most importantly, if you feel sexy, you look sexy.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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Wherever you are – be all there.
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The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
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If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
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If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
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I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
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Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
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You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
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Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
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If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
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You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
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Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
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Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven‘t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
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My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what’s best for you.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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What you put into life is what you get out of it.
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They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
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If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
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I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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The way you dress is an expression of your personality.
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.
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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
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Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
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Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
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Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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With confidence, you have won before you have started.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
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True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want.
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I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
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Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
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Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
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Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
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It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
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If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
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If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
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Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
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To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
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At the end of the day, you can’t control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
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I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
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Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
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No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
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My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
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If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
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You’re beautiful, like a May fly.
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent‘s fate.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
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I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
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If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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He who angers you conquers you.
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It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
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You only grow when you are alone.
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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
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Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
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With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
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Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
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Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
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Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
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There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
