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#1

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

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#2

“Dare to Be

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: compassion, dare-to-be, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, seize-the-day, smile, success

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#3

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding

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#4

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: happiness, success

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#5

“Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: failure, fearless, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success

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#6

“Success is...
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”
― John C. Maxwell

tags: success

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#7

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
― Michael Jordan

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#8

“If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.”
― Carl Lewis

tags: confidence, motivate, win

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#9

“The world is mad, and it takes a little madness at times to put it back in order again.”
― Lara Lee

tags: humor, madness

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#10

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

tags: self-esteem, time

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#11

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, battles, betrayal, consequences, divorce, fights, hurt, judgement, justice, letting-go, love, low-self-esteem, moving-on, pain, relationships, revenge, self-worth, seperation, vindication

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#12

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: creativity, intellect, life, love, loyalty, morality, productivity, work

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#13

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#14

“The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

tags: need-for-power, power, powerful, unhappiness, unhappiness-quotes

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#15

“What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of them. Something has been added to him which he had not had before. he is endowed with a briskness and an invention often alien to his blood. He is quicker in his movement, less trammeled in his judgement...The change he undergoes is unmistakeable, New York, indeed, resembles a magic cauldron. Those who are cast into it are born again.”
― Charles Whibley, American Sketches

tags: 1908, immigration, new-york-city

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#16

“Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.”
― Clayton M. Christensen

tags: business, disruption

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#17

“The most important tool you have on a resume is language.”
― Jay Samit

tags: business-quotes, career, change, change-your-life, disruption, disruptive-innovation, disruptive-technology, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship, innovation, insightful, inspirational, job-search, management, management-and-leadership, management-theory, motivational, resume, self-help, self-improvement, social-media, startup, teamwork, technology, transformation, wall-street-journal, wisdom

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#18

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: empathy, imagination, innovation, invention

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#19

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: invention

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#20

“Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: blessing, employment, finance, invent, invention, job, jobless, joblessness, life, money, purpose, time, work, zeal

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#21

“Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: develop, development, gift, invention, practice, self-development

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#22

“You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: creation, invention, purpose, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, rick-warren

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#23

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: advertising, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, business, business-strategy, catch-line, catch-phrases, corporate, creative, creativity, discipline, discovery, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, execution, governance, idea, ideas, implementation, innovation, inspirational, invent, invention, investment, knowledge, management, marketing, money, motivational, organisation, organize, out-of-the-box, philosophy, plan, planning, process, processes, professional, professionalism, startup, system, tag-line, wisdom

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#24

“There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, comfort-station, convention, culture, custom, disgust, disgusting, funny, hilarious, house, houses, housing, humor, humorous, humour, idea, ideas, innovate, innovation, invent, invention, joke, jokes, lavatory, loo, powder-room, repulsive, restroom, satire, shelter, shelters, toilet, toilets, tradition, urinal, washroom

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#25

“If you think you’ve invented something, ask yourself three questions:

1) Has it been done before?
2) Why hasn’t it been done before?
3) Is it worth doing?

If your invention passes these three tests, you’re good to go.”
― Clifford Cohen

tags: creating-something-new, invention, inventions

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#26

“The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

tags: act, action, actions, change, do-something, food-for-thought, innovate, innovation, invent, invention, israelmore-ayivor, lead, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, make-a-change, take-actions

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#27

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: ideas

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#28

“Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.”
― Ryan Lilly

tags: brainstorm, brainstorming, ideas, innovation, inspiration, invention

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#29

“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.”
― Ryan Lilly

tags: act-of-creation, art, conjure, conjurer, conjuring, creation, creativity, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, free, invention, inventions, inventor, nothing, nothingness, samples, something, startup, startups

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#30

“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: ability, brain, brainstorm, brainstorming, clever, cleverness, destiny, genuis, global, head, idea, inventing, invention, key, knowledge, learning, mental-discoveries, mentality, michael-bassey-johnson, perspective, potentials, power, revelation, sense, sensical, sixth-sense, student, study, talent, talents, unleashing-potentials, vision, visionary, wisdom, wise

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