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  • #1
    “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: doubt, failure, self-doubt, success, suzy-kassem
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176982 likes

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  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151333 likes

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  • #4
    Napoleon Hill
    “We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
    tags: fate, potential
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114360 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78300 likes

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  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77734 likes

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  • #8
    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
    46489 likes

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  • #9
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #10
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33849 likes

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  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31525 likes

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  • #12
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
    29966 likes

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  • #13
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
    27257 likes

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  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
    25338 likes

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  • #15
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    23870 likes

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  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
    23482 likes

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  • #17
    Helen Keller
    “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 which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    20087 likes

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  • #19
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
    18865 likes

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  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement
    1438 likes

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  • #21
    Jim Morrison
    “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness
    756 likes

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  • #22
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: adversity, challenge, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, potential
    582 likes

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  • #23
    Sarah Dessen
    “The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: choices, forever, life, people, potential
    464 likes

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  • #24
    Margaret Atwood
    “Potential has a shelf life.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
    tags: life, potential
    318 likes

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  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “Idris: Are all people like this?
    The Doctor: Like what?
    Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: brilliance, consciousness, doctor-who, human-greatness, humanity, potential, soul, tardis, the-doctor-s-wife, vastness
    211 likes

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  • #26
    Tim Fargo
    “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: achieve, achievement, achieving, achieving-success, champ, champion, chance, effort, efforts, opportunities, opportunity, possibilities, possibility, potential, risk, succeed, success, successful, taking-risks, try, trying, victor, victory, win, winner, winning, work, work-ethic
    171 likes

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  • #27
    “It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
    ― Ella Fitzgerald
    tags: potential
    98 likes

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  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “Our doubts are traitors,
    and make us lose the good we oft might win,
    by fearing to attempt.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt
    1813 likes

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  • #29
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
    1661 likes

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  • #30
    P.C. Cast
    “I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself”
    ― P.C. Cast
    tags: self-doubt
    434 likes



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