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Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama
Realization of one's potential is not measured by wealth, but rather by the impact they have on others.
2.
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Galileo Galilei
'You can't impart knowledge to anybody, only aid them in discovering the answers within themselves.'
3.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
Michelangelo
Your aptitudes lie in the area where your principles, desires and capabilities converge. Unearthing that place is the initial move towards forming your magnum opus, Your Life.
4.
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.
Mark Twain
'The sole method of preserving your wellbeing is to consume what you abhor, imbibe what you detest, and perform what you'd rather avoid.'
5.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
Benjamin Franklin
A majority of people give up on their aspirations by the age of twenty-five, leading to a premature demise.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria
We have no room for failure.
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Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.
Huldrych Zwingli
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Transform your life today. Don't take a chance on the future, act promptly and without hesitation.
9.
There is no normal life, there's just life.
Doc Holliday
'No two lives are alike, just life.'
10.
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler
My action was not remarkable; it was just a typical occurrence.
11.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
It is unsurprising that reality surpasses imagination; after all, fabrication must be plausible.
12.
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
Paula White
Life's prospects are endless. God created you to be an incessant student, a tireless worker, an unceasing explorer and an unwavering giver. He never sanctioned a 'cut-off point' from such activities!
13.
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan
Recall that the world is not an amusement park but a classroom. Life is not a leisurely break but a learning experience. An everlasting lesson for humanity: to instruct us how to love more profoundly.
14.
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
John Tyler
Accumulated riches can only be acquired through the profits of labor and the thrift of economy.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
The impetus to probe is the foundation of all human advancement.
16.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
John Tyler
I maintain that the most powerful of all administrations is that which has the greatest liberty.
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The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
Alicia Keys
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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno of Elea
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
Sigourney Weaver
24.
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
Black Elk
25.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
26.
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
William Allen White
27.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
28.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
Zhuangzi
29.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
31.
...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
33.
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Ray Lewis
34.
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
Zachary Taylor
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
Matsuo Basho
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The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
Charles Stanley
37.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Steve Jobs
38.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
Mark Twain
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
40.
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
Sun Tzu
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
T. Harv Eker
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
Jeanne Moreau
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...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Leo Tolstoy
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
Ernest Becker