A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
I must die. If instantly, I will die instantly; If in a short time, I will dine first, since the hour for dining is here, and when the time comes, then I will die. How? As becomes a person who is giving back what is not his own.
~ Epictetus
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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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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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
~ Lao Tzu
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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 are not demons, but human beings like himself.
~ Lao Tzu
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Our difficulties and our dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them.
~ Winston Churchill
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
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With a brain in my head, and feet in my shoes, I can steer myself any direction I choose.
~ Dr. Seuss, in Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, (1990 book)
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
~ Lao Tzu
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It’s not who we are, but what we do that defines us.
~ Bruce Wayne, in Batman Begins, (2005 film)
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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 consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
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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 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 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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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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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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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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