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    Inspirational Quotes

    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle ”It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” Howard Ruff ”It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi ”Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Sun-Tzu “Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” Laurence J. Peter “The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.” Hannah Whitall Smith

    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt

    ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

    ”It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” Howard Ruff

    ”It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi

    ”Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Sun-Tzu

    “Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” Laurence J. Peter

    “The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.” Hannah Whitall Smith

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    ”Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers

    ”Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau

    “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerso

    “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”Albert Einstein

    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther

    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Kelle

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    “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle Onassis

    “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

    “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt

    “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

    “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” Michael Jordan

    “Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.” Carl Sandburg

    “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” Democritus

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    “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa

    ”In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” Sid Caesar

    ”We see things not as they are, but as we are.” H. M. Tomlinson

    “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” Jimmy Johnso

    “The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.” Foster’s Law

    ”I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” Winston Churchill

    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

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    “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” Swami Sivananda

    “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” Leo Buscaglia

    “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth

    “Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?” Fulton J. Sheen

    “The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost

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    “I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I’m enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor – it’s my aspiration – so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!” Daniel Radcliffe

    “You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.” James Allen

    “You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.” James Lane Allen

    “I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration – that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.” Sonia Sotomayor

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    “A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.” Kurt Lewin

    “To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.” Charles Horton Cooley

    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel

    “I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Christopher Reeve

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    “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” Leonardo da Vinci

    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” Jonathan Swift

    “One man with courage makes a majority.” Andrew Jackson

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    “Life is full of surprises and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.” Condoleeza Rice

    “My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.” Steven Spielberg

    “We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.” Maxwell Maltz

    “In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.” Farrah Gray

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    “Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.” Robert Heinlein

    “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” Oprah Winfrey

    “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” Francis Maitland Balfour

    “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.” W. Somerset Maugham

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    “We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.” Cato the Elder

    “Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.” Abigail Van Buren

    “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” Oprah Winfrey

    “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” Lord Byr

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