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Famous Motivational Quotes

– “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll

– “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

– “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

– “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker

– “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

– “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker

Death Quotes

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mohandas Gandhi

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mohandas Gandhi

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. — Socrates

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (June, 1944) — George S. Patton

Arthur: “Marvin, any ideas?”
Marvin: “I have a million ideas. They all point to certain death.” — Douglas Adams

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right. From his speech at Stanford University during graduation in the spring of 2005. — Steve Jobs

“I don’t want to die now. I’ve still got a headache. I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it” — Douglas Adams

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. — Kurt Vonnegut

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci

Famous Death Quotes

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato