top quotations of all time
positive encouraging uplifting
Robert H. Schuller Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
witty art procrastination
Don Marquis Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
determination military persistence
Carl von Clausewitz Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Swami Sivananda Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Top Art quotes
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Jean de La Fontaine Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
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Steve Jobs Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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Edward Gibbon Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Top Happiness quotes
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Plutarch Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
positive adversity opportunity
Alexander Graham Bell Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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Carl Sagan Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Francis of Assisi Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Arthur Ashe Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Top Life quotes
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Franz Kafka Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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Charles Atlas Step by step and the thing is done.
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Thomas Browne Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Bill Gates Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Top Positive quotes
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Don Shula Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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Arnold H. Glasow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
life beauty beautiful
Rosalind Russell Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
happiness happy summer
Anton Chekhov People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Top Travel quotes
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Marcus Tullius Cicero The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Elizabeth Gaskell The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
get-up happens taking-action
John Ciardi The day will happen whether or not you get up.
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Hosea Ballou Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Charles Eames The details are not the details. They make the design.
Top Beauty quotes
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John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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James Anthony Froude The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
friendship real men
Edward Everett Hale The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
logic mind others
Bernard Voto The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
happiness happy being-happy
Ashley Montagu The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Top Hope quotes
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Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
anger people always-complaining
Stephen Hawking People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
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Vince Lombardi Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Julie Andrews Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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Francesco Guicciardini Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Top Love quotes
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Thomas Dekker Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
fog looks reason
Johann Georg Hamann The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
learning ignorant firsts
Richard Cecil The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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Jackie Kennedy The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
love life relationship
Dag Hammarskjold Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Top Romantic quotes
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James A. Baldwin The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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John Fowles The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Audrey Hepburn The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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William Temple The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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Ferdinand Foch The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Top Trust quotes