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Quotes from the most Brilliant, 
Passionate Minds.. To Inspire, Motivate 
and Soothe the Soul.

"Don't follow where the path may lead...go where there is no path and leave a trail."

"You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed."  Wm. Paul Young - Author of the Shack

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To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller

 

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

 

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder

 

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

 

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

To understand is to forgive, even one self.
Alexander Chase

 

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

 

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha

 

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
David Hilbert

 

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

 

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.
Mahatma Gandhi

 

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi

 

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi

 

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind.  In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.
Immanuel Kant

 

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin

 

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbours no insincerity.
Paramhansa Yogananda

 

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
Paramahansa Yogananda

 

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
Paul Brunton

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Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle!
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
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Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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Which is stronger: your urge to grow or your resistance to change?
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Good ideas have a very short shelf life.
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The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition.
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The first rule for success is to show up.
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Success is not a destination, it is a constant, continuous journey.
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How much easier our work would be if we put forth as much effort trying to improve the quality of it as most of us do trying to find excuses for not properly attending to it.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.  The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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The people who make a difference are not the ones with credentials, but the ones with the concern.
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There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient.
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Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.It is only through acceptance that we can give people the freedom to become who they truly are.
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It is a rare and a high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the difference that they can make not only in their lives but in the lives of others by simply giving of themselves.
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Two men working as a team will produce more than three men working as individuals.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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If there's a better way to do it, then find it.
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The best way out is always through.
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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.It is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
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The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
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The impossible is often the untried.Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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When you love what you do, it's difficult not to succeed.
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Your enthusiasm is obvious to everyone around you and it is contagious.
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Do more than you are paid to do.
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There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.
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Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view.
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Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
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Ask more of yourself than anyone can ever ask of you, and that way you'll always be prepared for whatever is coming.
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Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it!
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When the going gets tough, the tough get creative.
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Learning is discovering that something is possible.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
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If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination.
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There is a meaning in every job - take the time to look for it.
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Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.There is no excellence without difficulty.
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Some pursue happiness - others create it.
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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Ten percent of organization is knowing what to do. The other 90% is doing it now.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street.
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Thinking opens new avenues.
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He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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Integrity is not negotiable.
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When nothing is sure everything is possible.
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You must get involved to have an impact.
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No one is impressed with the won/lost record of the referee.
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To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
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Coming together is a start. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
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To deserve success is more important than to achieve it.
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Set positive goals and reasonable expectations.
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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It's not the job you work but how you work the job.
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The world always steps aside for people who know where they're going.
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Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did – and those who did and never thought.
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Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view.
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Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.  Success never rests.
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On your worst days, be good. And on your best days, be great. And on every other day, get better.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
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Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
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Keep your dreams alive.
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Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. xo
Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
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Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle.
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Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
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Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
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Failure seldom stops you; what stops you is the fear of failure.
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Your big opportunity might be right where you are now.
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All things are difficult before they are easy.

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Monster Of Immoral Retaliation Association

"I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.
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"I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."
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"Taping anyone's private conversations without proper consent is illegal. Printing those conversations -- when they serve no public interest -- is unethical and potentially illegal.”
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"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
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"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
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"Anything worth learning cannot be learned in the classroom.”
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"Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive and ethical society."
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"Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive and ethical society."
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners...Looking for new skills, insights and ideas.  If they're not learning, they're not growing...not moving toward excellence.
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""High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true."

Arundhati Roy:


Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Jane Wagner:
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

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Mary Kay Ash Quote

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

Rhonda Byrne Quotes

"Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of
The Secret onto the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and everything that we needed to create The Secret came to us."


Vince Lombardi

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Maya Angelou Quotes

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."

"I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance."

"I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making a life"."

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."



Henry Kravis Quotes

"A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them."

"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."


"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."

'Gary Zukav' Quotes




"The only real valuable thing is intuition."


"The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness.  Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance."


"Forgiveness means that you do not hold others responsible for your experiences."

"Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now."

"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion.  Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."

"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

"The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it.  It is impossible not to complete it.  It is not a question of if, but of when.  Every situation that you create serves this purpose.  Every experience that you encounter serves this purpose."

"Trust allows you to give.  Giving is abundant.  Trust allows the experience of bliss.  Bliss is awakefulness.  Trust allows you to laugh.  Laugh at the richness, the beauty and the playfulness of the universe.  Apply consciousness to this process and all roads will lead to home."


"Relax into the present moment."


"The heart that dances is the innocent heart.  It is the dancing heart that is harmless."


"There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention."


"You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly
and immediately the need of your soul to heal."

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'Helen Keller' Quote


"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' Quote

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."


'Henry David Thoreau' Quotes


"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."


"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."


'Albert Einstein' Quotes

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."


"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society.  Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."

"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined.  Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."


"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

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John F. Kennedy Quotes

'There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

"A man does what he must.. in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures.. and that is the basis of all human morality."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

'Alexander Graham Bell' Quote

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - perservering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."

'Thomas Edison' Quotes

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."


"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."


"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up."


"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."


'Aristotle' Quotes

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:  chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."

"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies;  for the hardest victory is the victory over self."

"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."


"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."


'Leonardo Davinci' Quotes


"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."


"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand."


"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."


"Patience serves as a protection against wrong as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you."


'Walt Disney' Quotes


"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."


"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."


"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."


"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island..... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day."


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'John W Foster' Quote

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."


'Marion Wright Edelman' Quote


"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."


"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."


"You're not obligated to win.  You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."


"Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching."