Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
John F. Kennedy
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
David Bowie
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My dear, when people show you who they are, why don't you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can't you get it the first time?
Maya Angelou
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
M. Scott Peck
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The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.
Alphonsus Liguori
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In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination.
Thomas A. Edison
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Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.
Edward J. Flanagan
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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Frederick William Robertson
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
Natascha McElhone
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If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
Mary J. Blige
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Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney
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Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
Mother Teresa