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Abraham Lincoln
Alfred Tennyson
Amelia Earhart
André Gide
Anna Frank
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Archibald Alexander Hodge
Aristotle
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Schopenhauer
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Blaise Pascal
Bodhidharma
Booker T. Washington
Carolus Linnaeus
Charles W. Chesnutt
Confucius
David Livingstone
Edmund Burke
Elbert Hubbard
Francis Bacon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Eliot
George Moore
George Orwell
Hazrat Inajat Khan
Helen Hunt Jackson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Ford
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hippocrates
Imam Ali
James Allen
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Molière
James Mackintosh
James Matthew Barrie
Janos Arany
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Joubert
Josh Billings
Jules Verne
Lao Tzu
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo Da Vinci
Lucy Larcom
Mahatma Gandhi
Marcus Aurelius
Marie Curie
Mark Twain
Matthew Prior
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nellie Bly
Nelson Henderson
Omar Khayyam
Paul Gauguin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ryunosuke Satoro
Saint Augustine
Sun Tzu
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Dewar
Thomas Jefferson
Victor Hugo
Walter Bagehot
William James
Zen proverb
Author
”In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
”Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
”That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
”The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
”Whatever you are, be a good one.”
”You can lose everything in life, but not dreams.”
”I am a part of all that I have met.”
”The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
”Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
”Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
”Dare to be yourself!”
”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
”Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
”How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
”Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
”The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
”You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
”No man can ever raise above that which he aims.”
”He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
”Hope is a waking dream.”
”Enthusiasm moves the world.”
”Each day is a little life.”
”It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
”Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
”Success is the child of audacity.”
”The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
”The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
”Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
”He that can have patience can have what he will.”
”Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
”Lost time is never found again.”
”When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
”In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
”Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
”All know the way, but few actually walk it.”
”Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”
”Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
”If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
”There is time enough, but none to spare.”
”It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
”I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”
”You can never plan the future by the past.”
”Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
”He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
”The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
”The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
”The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
”A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
”Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
”The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
”Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
”And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
”Become who you are!”
”I have learned to walk: since then I have run.”
”The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
”You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
”Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.”
”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
”You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
”Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
”It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
”A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
”Reality can destroy the dream. Why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?”
”Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
”Reason is the illusion of reality.”
”When time is spent, eternity begins.”
”Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”
”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
”Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
”Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
”Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
”What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
”There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
”To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
”Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right.”
”Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.”
”The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
”Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”
”Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
”You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
”The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
”It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
”It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.”
”The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
”In dreams and love nothing is impossible.”
”A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
”As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
”If you don’t feel it, you’ll never get it.”
”Nothing is worth more than this day.”
”Remember to live.”
”May you live all the days of your life.”
”Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?”
”Close your eyes and see.”
”Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
”A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
”Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!”
”Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
”How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
”The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
”In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
”I love those who can smile in trouble.”
”The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
”He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
”Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
”God has no religion.”
”Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
”The future depends on what you do today.”
”The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
”There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
”To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
”Truth is one, paths are many.”
”What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
”Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
”Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
”The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
”The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
”Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
”What we do now echoes in eternity.”
”You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
”I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
”You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”
”Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
”Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
”The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
”Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
”Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
”You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
”Hope is but the dreams of those who wake.”
”Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
”Imagination governs the world.”
”Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
”Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
”The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
”Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
”I shut my eyes in order to see.”
”Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
”He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
”It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
”Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
”Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
”Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
”Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
”People only see what they are prepared to see.”
”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
”With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
”Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
”The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
”Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
”Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
”Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
”The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
”When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven’t.”
”Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”
”If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”
”People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
”There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
”The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
”Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
”Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
”Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
”Belief creates the actual fact.”
”The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
”You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day — unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.”
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