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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
    ― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
    tags: misattributed-to-plato, paraphrased, people, play
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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  • #8
    Plato
    “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: inspirational
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    Nelson Mandela
    “ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Nelson Mandela
    “One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: negotiating-change
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Appearances matter — and remember to smile.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting
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    Nelson Mandela
    “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: inspirational
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Nelson Mandela
    “One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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  • #27
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8477 likes

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    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7609 likes



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