Inspirational famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
-- Arsene Wenger -
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
-- Art Buchwald -
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.
-- Art Linkletter -
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-- Arthur Ashe -
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
-- Arthur Ashe -
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
-- Arthur Ashe -
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The goal of the future is full unemployment
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
-- Arthur Golden -
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
-- Arthur Golden -
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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
-- Arthur Helps -
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
-- Arthur Helps -
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Arthur Helps -
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler -
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
-- Arthur Young -
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
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The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
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Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.
-- Ashley Judd -
I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
-- Ashley Olsen -
Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
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It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
-- Attila the Hun -
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
-- Audre Lorde -
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
-- Audre Lorde -
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-- Audre Lorde -
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I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
-- Audre Lorde -
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
-- Audre Lorde -
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...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
-- Audre Lorde -
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
-- Audrey Flack -
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
-- August Sander -
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
-- August Wilson -
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Auguste Rodin -
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- Augustus Hare -
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
-- Augustus Hare -
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In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
-- Augustus William Hare -
If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
-- Austin Kleon -
If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.
-- Austin Kleon -
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."
-- Austin Kleon -
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The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
-- Avery Brundage -
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.
-- Avril Lavigne -
Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.
-- Ayanna Howard -
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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-- Ayn Rand -
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
-- Ayn Rand -
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
-- Ayn Rand -
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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
-- Ayn Rand -
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
-- Ayn Rand -
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
-- Ayn Rand -
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
-- Ayn Rand -