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Top 15 Inspirational Quotes

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1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. –Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect- Mark Twain

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else- Winston Churchill

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

13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

Bonus:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Cute Love Quotes #3

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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Bill Wilson

All mankind love a lover. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – Jules Renard

One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love. – Elizabeth Aston

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. – Woody Allen

We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find. – Anonymous

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark Overby

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Robert Frost Quotes

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Famous Money Quotes

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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” – Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” – Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.” – Henry Ford

Famous Happiness Quotes

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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost

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

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” – Storm Jameson

“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

Famous Business Quotes

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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost

“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.” – Sigourney Weaver

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” – Kahlil Gibran

“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis

“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.” – David Ogilvy

“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.” – Benjamin Franklin

Sweet Quotes About Love

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– “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

– “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

– “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

– “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

– “There are a million things in the world I want, but all I need is you.” – Anonymous

– “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse

– “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – Shakespeare

– “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

– “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

– “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

26 Moving Travel Quotes

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1. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

2.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Barr

3. “Only he that travels the road knows where the holes are deep” 
- Chinese Proverb

4. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” 
- John Hope Franklin

5. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
 – Robert Frost

6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 
- Maya Angelou

7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” 
- Martin Burbur

8. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” 
- Daranna GIidel

9. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensation to read on the train.” 
- Oscar Wilde


10.”We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” 
- Unknown

11. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 
- St. Augustine

12. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns to find it.” 
- George Moore

13.”I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”
 – William Hazlitt

14. “The Traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he as come to see.” 
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
 – Nikos Kazantzakis

16. “The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

18.”My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
 – Diane Arbus

19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” 
- Benjamin Disraeli

20.”A true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.” 
- Colette

21. “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

22. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends”
 – Shirley Maclaine

23.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Beard

24. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.”Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” 
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

26.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
 – G.K. Chesterton

Rain Quotes

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– “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

– “A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” – Frederick The Great

– “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey

– “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” – Ray Evans

– “And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.” – Ferdowsi

– “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

– “Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.” – Dwight Morrow

– “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.” – Joshua Slocum

– “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

– “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank Howard Clark

– “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday

– “Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.” – John McGahern

– “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” – John Cheever

– “For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” – Thomas More

– “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” – Douglas William Jerrold

– “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” – Michael W. Smith

– “Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.” – Herbert Simon

– “I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.” – Eden Ahbez

– “I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.” – Glenn Beck

Funny Motivational Quotes

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– “Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be.” – Unknown

– “Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.” – Unknown

– “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

– “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields

– “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” – Unknown

– “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Nightingale

– “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” – Robert Frost

– “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” – Al Neuharth

– “The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.” – Unknown