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#1

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
― Abraham Lincoln

#2

“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: leadership, perseverance

566 likes

#3

“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
― Robert Jordan

553 likes

#4

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22512 likes

#5

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

1427 likes

#6

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23766 likes

#7

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3620 likes

#8

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2066 likes

#9

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

2697 likes

#10

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

1818 likes

#11

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

3819 likes

#12

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3561 likes

#13

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

tags: excuses, goal, inspiration, motivation, self-defeat

2257 likes

#14

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4210 likes

#15

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

tags: inspirational, love

1644 likes

#16

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4656 likes

#17

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3836 likes

#18

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3575 likes

#19

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

1215 likes

#20

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

1755 likes

#21

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

1817 likes

#22

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

1544 likes

#23

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

tags: family, humor

1397 likes

#24

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3049 likes

#25

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3795 likes

#26

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

1164 likes

#27

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

2639 likes

#28

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4349 likes

#29

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: inspirational, motto

2870 likes

#30

“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: dalinar, sacrifice, victory

1158 likes

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