| 1 |
"We must use time wisely and forever realise that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mendela |
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6.1% |
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| 2 |
"To measure the man, measure his heart." - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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5.3% |
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| 3 |
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon. |
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5.2% |
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| 4 |
"Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny." - Kamran Hamid |
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5.2% |
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| 5 |
"Leap and the net will appear." - Julie Cameron |
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4.5% |
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| 6 |
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." - Anon. |
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4.0% |
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| 7 |
"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Shira Tehrani |
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2.5% |
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| 8 |
"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko |
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2.0% |
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| 9 |
"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it." - Anon. |
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1.7% |
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| 10 |
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Thomas La Mance |
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1.5% |
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| 11 |
"Happiness walks on busy feet." - Kitte Turmell |
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1.5% |
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| 12 |
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ..." - Michel de Montaigne |
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1.3% |
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| 13 |
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean |
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1.3% |
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| 14 |
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish proverb |
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1.1% |
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| 15 |
"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson |
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1.0% |
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| 16 |
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers |
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1.0% |
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| 17 |
"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." - Walter Hagen |
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0.9% |
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| 18 |
"We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young |
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0.9% |
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| 19 |
"Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals." - Voltaire |
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0.8% |
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| 20 |
"The tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays |
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0.8% |
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| 21 |
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash |
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0.8% |
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| 22 |
"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try." - Mary Kay Ash |
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0.8% |
|
| 23 |
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' " - John Greenleaf Whittier |
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0.7% |
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| 24 |
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die." - William Wiley |
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0.7% |
|
| 25 |
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." - Helen Rowland |
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0.6% |
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| 26 |
"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." - Thomas Szasz |
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0.6% |
|
| 27 |
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold |
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0.6% |
|
| 28 |
"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius |
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0.5% |
|
| 29 |
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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0.5% |
|
| 30 |
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Sallust |
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0.4% |
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| 31 |
"The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz |
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0.4% |
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| 32 |
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller |
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0.4% |
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| 33 |
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work." - Daniel H. Burnham |
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0.4% |
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| 34 |
"He not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan |
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0.4% |
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| 35 |
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein |
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0.4% |
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| 36 |
"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." - Reverend Oliver G. Wilson |
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0.4% |
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| 37 |
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." - Max Eastman |
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0.4% |
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| 38 |
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee |
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0.3% |
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| 39 |
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford |
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0.3% |
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| 40 |
"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke |
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0.3% |
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| 41 |
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon |
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0.3% |
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| 42 |
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw |
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0.3% |
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| 43 |
"He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for." - Moroccan Proverb |
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0.3% |
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| 44 |
"What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr. |
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0.3% |
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| 45 |
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes the next time." - Nadine Stair |
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0.3% |
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| 46 |
"Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
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| 47 |
"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
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| 48 |
"'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders." - George P. Burnham |
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0.2% |
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| 49 |
"You're as old as you behave." - Harvey Mackay |
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0.2% |
|
| 50 |
"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
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| 51 |
"Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment." - Amelia Barr |
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0.2% |
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| 52 |
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Paul Fargis |
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0.2% |
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| 53 |
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson |
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0.2% |
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| 54 |
"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln |
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0.2% |
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| 55 |
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Star Jordan |
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0.2% |
|
| 56 |
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson |
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0.2% |
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| 57 |
"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." - Friedrich von Schiller |
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0.2% |
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| 58 |
"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" - Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
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0.2% |
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| 59 |
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca |
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0.2% |
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| 60 |
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein |
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0.2% |
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| 61 |
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
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| 62 |
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
|
| 63 |
"Lazy people work double." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
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| 64 |
"The most common cause of insufficient results is insufficient action." - Brian Koslow |
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0.2% |
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| 65 |
"You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself." - Warren B. Bennis |
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0.2% |
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| 66 |
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." - Buddhist Proverb |
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0.2% |
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| 67 |
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity." - Omar Idn Al-Halif |
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0.2% |
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| 68 |
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewing |
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0.2% |
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| 69 |
"Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau |
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0.2% |
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| 70 |
"The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr. |
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0.2% |
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| 71 |
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus |
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0.2% |
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| 72 |
"To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille |
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0.2% |
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| 73 |
"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." - Mae West |
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0.2% |
|
| 74 |
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg." - Anon. |
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0.2% |
|
| 75 |
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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0.1% |
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| 76 |
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." - Anais Nin |
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0.1% |
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| 77 |
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." - Anon |
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0.1% |
|
| 78 |
"Later never exists." - Anon. |
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0.1% |
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| 79 |
"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." - Col. Michael Friedsman |
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0.1% |
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| 80 |
"We only do well the things we like doing." - Colette |
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0.1% |
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| 81 |
"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan |
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0.1% |
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| 82 |
"All serious daring starts from within." - Eudora Welty |
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0.1% |
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| 83 |
"But' is a fence over which few leap." - German proverb |
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0.1% |
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| 84 |
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses |
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0.1% |
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| 85 |
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." - Henry Moore |
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0.1% |
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| 86 |
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." - Jules Renard |
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0.1% |
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| 87 |
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." - Lilly Langtry |
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0.1% |
|
| 88 |
"You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead." - Lois Platford |
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0.1% |
|
| 89 |
"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." - Marie Beynon Ray |
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0.1% |
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| 90 |
"One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca |
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0.1% |
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| 91 |
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action..." - Theodore Roosevelt |
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0.1% |
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| 92 |
"A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart." - Robertson Davies |
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0.1% |
|
| 93 |
"Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey |
|
0.1% |
|
| 94 |
"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment." - Marsha Sinetar |
|
0.1% |
|
| 95 |
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb |
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0.1% |
|
| 96 |
"You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford |
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0.1% |
|
| 97 |
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." - James A. Michener |
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0.1% |
|
| 98 |
"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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0.1% |
|
| 99 |
"Things are only impossible until they're not." - Jean-Luc Picard |
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0.1% |
|
| 100 |
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Sally Berger |
|
0.1% |
|
| 101 |
"The most powerful thing to believe in is yourself and your own abilities." - Brian Koslow |
|
0.1% |
|
| 102 |
"What makes life dreary is want of motive." - George Eliot |
|
0.1% |
|
| 103 |
"The mere sense of living is joy enough" - Emily Dickinson |
|
0.1% |
|
| 104 |
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France |
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0.1% |
|
| 105 |
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work." - George Bernard Shaw |
|
0.1% |
|
| 106 |
"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." - Anon. |
|
0.1% |
|
| 107 |
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." - William Bridges |
|
0.1% |
|
| 108 |
"It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying." - Tim Robbins (from the film, "The Shawshank Redemption") |
|
0.1% |
|
| 109 |
"There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience." - Laurence J. Peter |
|
0.1% |
|
| 110 |
"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success." - B. C. Forbes |
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0.1% |
|
| 111 |
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything." - Joan Didion |
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0.1% |
|
| 112 |
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation." - Gail Sheehy |
|
0.1% |
|
| 113 |
"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what
you have to do." - Epictetus |
|
0.1% |
|
| 114 |
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." - Arthur Christopher Benson |
|
0.1% |
|
| 115 |
"There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change." - Rollo May |
|
0.1% |
|
| 116 |
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." - Seneca |
|
0.1% |
|
| 117 |
"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful." - A. G. Buckham |
|
0.1% |
|
| 118 |
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." - Abraham Lincoln |
|
0.1% |
|
| 119 |
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin |
|
0.1% |
|
| 120 |
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle |
|
0.1% |
|
| 121 |
"Age is nothing to a live man." - Edward E. Purinton |
|
0.1% |
|
| 122 |
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden |
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0.1% |
|
| 123 |
"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem |
|
0.1% |
|
| 124 |
"The beginning is half of every action." - Greek proverb |
|
0.1% |
|
| 125 |
"If you rest, you rust." - Helen Hayes |
|
0.1% |
|
| 126 |
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller |
|
0.1% |
|
| 127 |
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn |
|
0.1% |
|
| 128 |
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older." - Larry McMurtry |
|
0.1% |
|
| 129 |
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - Logan Pearsall Smith |
|
0.1% |
|
| 130 |
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." - Ruth Gordon |
|
0.1% |
|
| 131 |
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done." - Samuel Johnson |
|
0.1% |
|
| 132 |
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore." - Shirley Hufstedler |
|
0.1% |
|
| 133 |
"Life is enthusiasm, zest." - Sir Laurence Olivier |
|
0.1% |
|
| 134 |
"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister |
|
0.1% |
|
| 135 |
"The best way to get something done is to begin." - Anon. |
|
0.1% |
|
| 136 |
"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." - Eva Young |
|
0.1% |
|
| 137 |
"What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate." - Henry David Thoreau |
|
0.1% |
|
| 138 |
"Readiness is all." - William Shakespeare |
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0.1% |
|
| 139 |
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London |
|
0.1% |
|
| 140 |
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no." - Jean Anouilh |
|
0.1% |
|
| 141 |
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller |
|
0.1% |
|
| 142 |
"Spend some time alone every day." - The Dalai Lama |
|
0.1% |
|
| 143 |
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden |
|
0.1% |
|
| 144 |
"You've got to find the force inside you." - Joseph Campbell |
|
0.1% |
|
| 145 |
"We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it." - Mary Blake |
|
0.1% |
|
| 146 |
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." - Sydney Smith |
|
0.1% |
|
| 147 |
"He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him." - Dutch Proverb |
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0.1% |
|
| 148 |
"The world belongs to the energetic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
0.1% |
|
| 149 |
"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." - Charles Richards |
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0.1% |
|
| 150 |
"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown |
|
0.1% |
|
| 151 |
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon. |
|
0.1% |
|
| 152 |
"It takes courage to lead a life. Any life." - Erica Jong |
|
0.1% |
|
| 153 |
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe |
|
0.1% |
|
| 154 |
"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." - Anon. |
|
0.1% |
|
| 155 |
"All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." - Barbara Grizutti Harrison |
|
0.1% |
|
| 156 |
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities." - John Wicker |
|
0.1% |
|
| 157 |
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters |
|
0.1% |
|
| 158 |
"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." - David Guy Powers |
|
0.1% |
|
| 159 |
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Linquist |
|
0.1% |
|
| 160 |
"Give me a man who sings at his work." - Thomas Carlyle |
|
0.1% |
|
| 161 |
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." - Mark Twain |
|
0.1% |
|
| 162 |
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli |
|
0.1% |
|
| 163 |
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton |
|
0.1% |
|
| 164 |
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
0.1% |
|
| 165 |
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace from the film 'Braveheart' |
|
0.1% |
|
| 166 |
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill |
|
0.1% |
|
| 167 |
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb |
|
0.1% |
|
| 168 |
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford |
|
0.1% |
|
| 169 |
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers |
|
0.1% |
|
| 170 |
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell |
|
0.1% |
|
| 171 |
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathusra |
|
0.1% |
|
| 172 |
"Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick." - Red Smith |
|
0.1% |
|
| 173 |
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings |
|
0.1% |
|
| 174 |
“If you're going through hell, keep going.” - Sir Winston Churchill |
|
0.1% |
|
| 175 |
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition." - Abraham Lincoln |
|
0.1% |
|
| 176 |
"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." - Adolph Monod |
|
0.1% |
|
| 177 |
"A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste." - Anon. |
|
0.1% |
|
| 178 |
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Artur Rubenstein |
|
0.1% |
|
| 179 |
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge |
|
0.1% |
|
| 180 |
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." - Charles M. Schwab |
|
0.1% |
|
| 181 |
"A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood." - David Sarnoff |
|
0.1% |
|
| 182 |
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett |
|
0.1% |
|
| 183 |
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
|
0.1% |
|
| 184 |
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte |
|
0.1% |
|
| 185 |
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright |
|
0.1% |
|
| 186 |
"Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man." - Jimmy Lyons |
|
0.1% |
|
| 187 |
"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." - John F. Kennedy |
|
0.1% |
|
| 188 |
"O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" - John Keats |
|
0.1% |
|
| 189 |
"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do." - Jose Ortega y Gasset |
|
0.1% |
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| 190 |
"Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it." - Joseph Campbell |
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| 191 |
"Do it big or stay in bed." - Larry Kelly |
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0.1% |
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| 192 |
"My future is one I must make myself." - Louis L'Amour |
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0.1% |
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| 193 |
"To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life." - Malcolm Forbes |
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0.1% |
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| 194 |
"..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will." - Michel de Montaigne |
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| 195 |
"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." - Queen Christina, of Sweden |
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0.1% |
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| 196 |
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May |
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0.1% |
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| 197 |
"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life." - Tennessee Williams |
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0.1% |
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| 198 |
"The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year." - Thomas Dreier |
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0.1% |
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| 199 |
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson |
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0.1% |
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| 200 |
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." - William James |
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0.1% |
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