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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: motivational, work
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, motivational, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: failure, success, time
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    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
    ― Sir Winston Churchill
    tags: inspirational, life, success
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    Amelia Earhart
    “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
    tags: failure, success, women, work
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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    Raji Lukkoor
    “Respond; don't react.
    Listen; don't talk.
    Think; don't assume.”
    ― Raji Lukkoor
    tags: inspirational, meditation, mindfulness
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    Mother Teresa
    “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
    ― Rumi
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Stephen King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspirational, productivity, writing
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    John Bytheway
    “It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.”
    ― John Bytheway
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You become what you think about all day long.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational, obsession
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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Bruce Lee
    “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational
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    Ptolemy
    “I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
    ― Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Almagest
    tags: eternity, mortality, night-sky, sky, stars
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Philip Pullman
    “There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, companionship, inspirational
    294 likes



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