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Quotes
Some inspirational quotes. If you have some suggestions,
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again
and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in
the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory
nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'."
- Ayn Rand
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The longest journey is the journey inward."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"He who controls others may be powerful, but
he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
- Lao-tzu
"Passive acceptance of evil is tantamount to
its perpetration."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear
what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson
"First say to yourself what you would be; and
then do what you have to do."
-Epicteus
"Don't allow your animal nature to rule your
reason."
-Mevlana Rumi
"In the midst of winter, I finally realized that there was
within me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus
"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
"Is not life a hundred times too short to bore
ourselves?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"When (actors) say, 'What about my performance?'
I say, 'What about my fucking performance?' I'm responsible for
the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way it's cast, what the
locations look like, what the script's like, how the fucking hair
is done. So back off and . . . give me a little bit of space to
coordinate these things at which I'm maybe one of the best. I say
it's not just about you. Ultimately, its about me."
-Ridley Scott
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to
make a fool of oneself."
-Charles Chaplin
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself
will never cease to be amused."
- Shirley MacLaine
"How old would you be if you didn't know how
old you are?"
- Satchel Paige
"The painter will produce pictures of little
merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
- Leonardi da Vinci
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence
- is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot
for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die
on a mountainside than in bed."
- Charles Lindbergh
"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication."
- Leonardi da Vinci
"Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten
every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now
you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting
drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion
and ignorance that does harm."
Marcus Aurelius
"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch
of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer
that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit,
then ripen."
- Epictetus
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
- Dalai Lama
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