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Top 10 Walt Disney Quotes

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walt disney quotes#10 » “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

#9 » “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

#8 » “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”

#7 » “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

#6 » “Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

#5 » “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

#4 » “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

#3 » “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

#2 » “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

#1 » “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

A little truth

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a little truthThere’s always:

– a little truth behind every I don’t know
– a little curiosity behind every just wondering
– a little emotion behind every I don’t care
– a little knowledge behind every I don’t know
– a little pain behind every it’s ok
– a little love behind I hate you
– a little I need you behind every leave me alone
– a lot of words behind the silence.

David Attenborough Quotes

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All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. – David Attenborough Quotes

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. – David Attenborough Quotes

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. – David Attenborough Quotes

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. – David Attenborough Quotes

Crying wolf is a real danger. – David Attenborough Quotes

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t approve of sunbathing, and it’s bad for you. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. – David Attenborough Quotes

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. – David Attenborough Quotes

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough Quotes

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. – David Attenborough Quotes

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. – David Attenborough Quotes

It’s a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. – David Attenborough Quotes

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. – David Attenborough Quotes

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. – David Attenborough Quotes

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. – David Attenborough Quotes

Sir David Attenborough QuotesThe fundamental issue is the moral issue. – David Attenborough Quotes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. – David Attenborough Quotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? – David Attenborough Quotes

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about. – David Attenborough Quotes

Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. – David Attenborough Quotes

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough Quotes

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about. – David Attenborough Quotes

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them. – David Attenborough Quotes

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. – David Attenborough Quotes

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m not in politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’ve been to Nepal, but I’d like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don’t think there’s anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. – David Attenborough Quotes

If I can bicycle, I bicycle. – David Attenborough Quotes

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough Quotes

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars. – David Attenborough Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt QuotesYou have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly,
and without fear, for newer and richer experiences. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Get Over It Quotes

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My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – The Movie Forrest Gump

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your  dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey

Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mohandas Gandhi

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

Get over It QuotesSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. – Lee Iacocca

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. – Anne Sullivan

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. – William James

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

William Arthur Ward Quotes

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William Arthur Ward was an American writer. I love his quotes, and I hope you will love them too. All you’ve got to do is to sit down, and enjoy his great William Arthur Ward Quotes.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Before you speak, listen.

Before you write, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you invest, investigate.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save.

Before you die, give.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”

Happiness is an inside job.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority

Famous Women Quotes

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. – Oprah Winfrey

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Self Confidence Quotes

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“The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.” ~Walt Disney

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~E. E. Cummings

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ~Wendy Wasserstein

“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” ~Cicero

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~African Proverb

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Author Unknown

“Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.” ~Author Unknown

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” ~Bruce Barton

“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.“ ~Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” ~Marcus Garvey

“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.” ~Brian Tracy

“Confidence, like art never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” ~Earl Grey Stevenson

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” ~Lazarus Long

“People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~Douglas MacArthur

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self confidence, bravery and tenacity.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” ~Alan Alda

“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” ~Dalai Lama

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within themselves, so they fail in their search.” ~Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Nice Life Quotes

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There are only 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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can’t change.
Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud – laugh often.
Laugh at what’s funny – laugh at what’s sad.
Laugh at me – laugh at you – laugh at life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie