Inspirational famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
-- Alyson Noel -
You never know what you have till you've lost it.
-- Alyson Noel -
Family matters. Family are the only people who will tell you when you're getting off the tracks a little. Surround yourself with people who love theLord, love themselves and love you, and you can't really fail.
-- Amanda Michalka -
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
-- Amar Bose -
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Work hard, learn all you can, and never miss the chance to connect with someone new.
-- Amber Naslund -
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
-- Amelia Barr -
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
-- Amelia Barr -
Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
-- Amelia Bloomer -
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart -
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.
-- Amit Goswami -
Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.
-- Amit Goswami -
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Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
-- Amory Lovins -
If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
-- Amory Lovins -
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
-- Amy Grant -
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
-- Amy Grant -
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Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
-- Amy Lowell -
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
-- Amy Lowell -
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
-- Amy Poehler -
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
-- Amy Poehler -
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When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
-- Amy Purdy -
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin -
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin -
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
-- Anais Nin -
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anais Nin -
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin -
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-- Anais Nin -
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
-- Anais Nin -
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
-- Anais Nin -
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
-- Anais Nin -
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin -
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
-- Anais Nin -
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
-- Anais Nin -
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
-- Anais Nin -
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
-- Anais Nin -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
-- Anais Nin -
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
-- Anais Nin -
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
-- Anais Nin -
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
-- Anais Nin -
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-- Anatole France -
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
-- Anatole France -
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France -
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
-- Anatole France -
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
-- Anatole France -
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France -
The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
-- Anderson Cooper -
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
-- Andre Agassi -
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There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.
-- Andre Agassi -
If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.
-- Andre Agassi -
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-- Andre Gide -
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
-- Andre Gide -
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- Andre Gide -
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
-- Andre Gide -
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
-- Andre Gide -
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
-- Andre Malraux -
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
-- Andre Malraux -
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
-- Andre Maurois -
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
-- Andre Maurois -
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
-- Andrea Gibson -
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
-- Andrea Gibson -
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
-- Andrea Gibson -
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
-- Andrea Gibson -
My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
-- Andrea Gibson -
You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
-- Andrew Bernstein -
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.
-- Andrew Clements -
It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.
-- Andrew Clements -