Inspirational famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.
-- Andrew Greeley -
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
-- Andrew Harvey -
What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
-- Andrew Harvey -
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
-- Andrew Long -
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Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
-- Andrew Murray -
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
-- Andrew Shue -
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
-- Andrew Shue -
It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
-- Andrew Solomon -
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
-- Andrew Young -
I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
-- Andy Griffith -
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
-- Andy Grove -
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
-- Andy Roddick -
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It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.
-- Andy Roddick -
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
-- Andy Roddick -
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-- Andy Rooney -
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-- Andy Rooney -
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol -
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
-- Andy Warhol -
You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
-- Andy Warhol -
Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
-- Andy Whitfield -
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
We live by what we believe not but what we see.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.
-- Angela Merkel -
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
-- Angelina Jolie -
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
-- Angelina Jolie -
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
-- Angelina Jolie -
I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
-- Ani DiFranco -
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
-- Anita Roddick -
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
-- Ann Bancroft -
Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
-- Ann Brashares -
Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe
-- Ann Brashares -
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
-- Ann Landers -
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
-- Ann Landers -
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
-- Ann Landers -
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers -
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers -
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You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.
-- Ann M. Martin -
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
-- Ann Oakley -
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
-- Ann Richards -
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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
-- Ann Richards -
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
-- Ann Richards -
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
-- Ann Voskamp -
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson -
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It ***** the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud -
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-- Anna Freud -
I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.
-- Anna Held -
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
-- Anna Pavlova -
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
-- Anna Quindlen -
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.
-- Anna Wintour -
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Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
-- Anne Bishop -
Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.
-- Anne Foy -
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-- Anne Frank -
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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
-- Anne Frank -
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
-- Anne Frank -
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank -
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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
-- Anne Frank -
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
-- Anne Frank -
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
-- Anne Frank -
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
-- Anne Frank -
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
-- Anne Lamott -
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
-- Anne Lamott -
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
-- Anne Lamott -
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-- Anne Lamott -
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
-- Anne Lamott -
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
-- Anne Lamott -
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
-- Anne Lamott -
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
-- Anne Lamott -
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
-- Anne Michaels -
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
-- Anne Rice -
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
-- Anne Sexton -
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
-- Anne Sexton -
Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
-- Anne Sweeney -
You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.
-- Anne, Princess Royal -
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
-- Annie Besant -