If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
~ unknown
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Death of fear
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Character
Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
~ unknown
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Explore. Deam. Discover.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
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Never give up
Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up.
~ unknown
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Bad decisions
Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes things happen because you are stupid and make bad decisions.
~ unknown
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I am somebody
I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that, then I realized I am somebody.
~ unknown
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Smile back
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.
~ Marcus Aurelius, in Gladiator, (2000 film)
Note: This was not written by Marcus Aurelius, but rather said by the character in the movie Gladiator. The closest thing which Aurelius did say, is in Meditations: “Accept death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed.” at 2.17, and “So make your exit with grace — the same grace shown to you.” as the final line of 12.36.
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You can be good
…and now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
~ John Steinbeck
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Have something to say
Wise men talk because they have something to say;
~ Plato
Fools, because they have to say something.
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How far one can go
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T. S. Eliot
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Money
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
~ unknown
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Just get better
It never gets easier.
~ unknown
You just get better.
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Talk about ideas
Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people.…and then, sadly, there are the people who love to talk about themselves.
~ unknown
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Not everything
You can do anything, but not everything.
~ David Allen
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Few possibilities
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
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Reckon the worth of each day
The largest portion of life passes while we are doing ill, a good share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; The major portion of death is already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands.
~ Seneca
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Broad shoulders
Ask not for a lighter burden; Ask instead for broader shoulders.
~ unknown
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Want the right thing
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; He’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.
~ C.S. Lewis
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Recipe for disaster
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology, and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear recipe for disaster.
~ Carl Sagan
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