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Life Quotes

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“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” – Lewis Grizzard

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.” – John Wooden

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” – Barack Obama

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain

“I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain

“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” – Mark Twain

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” – Ansel Adams

“But men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” – Francis Bacon

Motivational Quotes

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– “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton

– “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

– “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder

– “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

– “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

– “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire

– “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown

– “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

– “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague

– “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson

– “Fortune favors the brave.” – Publius Terence

– “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

– “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

– “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill

– “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” – Matthew Prior

– “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius

– “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley