Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Relationships
They who wanted to do each other good are now handling one another in an imperious and intolerant manner, and in the struggle somehow to get out of their untenable and unbearable state of confusion, they commit the greatest fault that can happen to human relationships: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Genius
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
~ Lao Tzu
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Discipline
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell
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Man’s enemies
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
~ Lao Tzu
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Boldness
Our difficulties and our dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them.
~ Winston Churchill
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Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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Everything is accomplished
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
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A brain in my head
With a brain in my head, and feet in my shoes, I can steer myself any direction I choose.
~ “Dr. Seuss“
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Respond intelligently
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
~ Lao Tzu
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What we do
It’s not who we are, but what we do that defines us.
~ “Bruce Wayne“
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Realize that all things change
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
~ Lao Tzu
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Success
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
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A delusional quality
I think that there’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different can happen.
~ Will Smith
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The world breaks everyone
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Do the difficult things
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu
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One tongue
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue – to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
~ Socrates
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When it gets hard
The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and you’re gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it’ll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be.
~ Will Smith
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Rise to the work of a human being
In the morning, when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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No fixed plans
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~ Lao Tzu
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