Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~ Alexis Carrel
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Fear of failure
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Pause and reflect
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain
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The Myth of Sisyphus
But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
~ Albert Camus
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Humans work magic
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan
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Ourselves
It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary
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Three things define you
Three things define you:
1. Your patience when you have nothing.
~ unknown
2. Your attitude when you have everything.
3. …and who you help whenever you are able.
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Do not be fooled
Do not be fooled:
~ unknown
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
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The more you can hear
The quieter you become,
~ unknown
the more you can hear.
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Success makes noise
Work hard in silence.
~ unknown
Let success make the noise.
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True friends
True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Maturity
I don’t know the actual meaning of maturity. But for me, maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation rather than hurting them back.
~ unknown
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Take big swings
The great thing about taking chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.
~ Amy Poehler
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Wake up and chase them
Every morning you have two choices: Continue sleeping with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.
~ unknown
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Right place and time
I’ve always been in the right place and time.
~ Bob Hope
Of course, I steered myself there.
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Daily Routine
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
~ John C. Maxwell
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Peace
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in a the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
~ unknown
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Long-term Consistency
Long-term consistency trumps short term intensity.
~ Bruce Lee
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Do Something Fun
Every morning when I wake up I say, I’ll never be as young as I am today. Today is the youngest day of the rest of my life. Get up and do something fun.
~ Rochelle Ford
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Always a Child
He who knows only his own generation remains always a child.
~ Cicero
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