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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: excuses, humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Speak little, do much.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: visitors
    56 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: experience, folly, fools, learning, life-lessons, painful
    53 likes

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  • #5
    Heidi Grant Halvorson
    “Difficult but possible is the key. That’s because more difficult goals cause you to, often unconsciously, increase your effort, focus, and commitment to the goal; persist longer; and make better use of the most effective strategies.”
    ― Heidi Grant Halvorson, Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
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    Michael McCafferty
    “I delegate, therefore I am.”
    ― Michael McCafferty
    tags: business-advice, business-quotes, business-start-up, business-success
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    Michael McCafferty
    “Do it, document it, delegate it.”
    ― Michael McCafferty
    tags: business-advice, business-quotes, business-start-up, business-success
    2 likes

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  • #8
    Richard Branson
    “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
    ― Richard Branson
    tags: business-success, entrepreneurship, failure
    30 likes

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  • #9
    Donald J. Trump
    “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
    ― Donald Trump
    tags: business-success, entrepreneurship
    41 likes

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  • #10
    Guy Kawasaki
    “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
    ― Guy Kawasaki
    tags: business-success, entrpreneurship
    19 likes

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  • #11
    “Always deliver more than expected.”
    ― Larry Page
    tags: business-success, entrepreneurship
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  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: freedom, inspirational-quotes, loss, ownership
    1597 likes

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  • #13
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
    2219 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
    976 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
    765 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: stubbornness, wisdom
    65 likes

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  • #17
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: appearance, truth
    72 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Every movement reveals us.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge
    279 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Pandora Poikilos
    “The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
    ― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
    705 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
    ― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
    tags: anger, caring-too-much, change, cruelty, damage, depression, dismissing, envy, games, heart, hurting-others, ignoring, jealousy, not-caring, pain, rejecting, resentment, retaliation, revenge, seeking-revenge, self-abuse, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-help, self-worth, sorrow, spiritual-growth, unkindness, vengance
    1246 likes

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  • #23
    Napoleon Hill
    “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
    tags: career, defeat, goal, goals, inspirational, life, money, motivation, self-help
    796 likes

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  • #24
    Sheryl Sandberg
    “Done is better than perfect.”
    ― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    tags: business, career, inspirational, lean-in, self-help, women
    664 likes

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    Bernard Branson
    “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
    ― Bernard Branson
    tags: adult, african-american-romance, angels, baby, bible, bible-study, business, childrens, christian-living, christian-romance, college, creativity, dark-fantasy, dating, economics, education, educational, entrepreneurship, ethics, explicit, faith, family, family-relationships, fantasy-romance, friendship, fun, funny, humorous-romance, jesus, leadership, love-story, management, marriage, meditation, motivational, nonfiction, paranormal-romance, parenting, personal-transformation, relationships, religion, romantic-comedy, romantic-suspense, self-esteem, self-help, sex, sexuality, sexy, spiritual-growth, spirituality, students, success, supernatural, teen, women, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy
    770 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44323 likes

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  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45301 likes

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  • #29
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
    8872 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
    5130 likes



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