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  • #1
    Adolf Hitler
    “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: philosophy, war
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127101 likes

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  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101561 likes

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  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92175 likes

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  • #6
    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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  • #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
    77747 likes

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  • #8
    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
    78309 likes

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  • #9
    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
    45295 likes

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  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45239 likes

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  • #11
    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
    42750 likes

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  • #12
    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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  • #13
    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11416 likes

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  • #14
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
    4909 likes

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  • #15
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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  • #16
    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance
    2989 likes

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  • #17
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    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, motivation, motivational, never-give-up, optimism, optimistic, persistence, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, trying
    4004 likes

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  • #18
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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  • #19
    Coco Chanel
    “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
    tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
    1556 likes

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  • #20
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
    1479 likes

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  • #21
    Benjamin Franklin
    “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: examinations, failure, humor
    1188 likes

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  • #22
    Ned Vizzini
    “I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: failure, living, moving-on, regrets
    1135 likes

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  • #23
    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
    1045 likes

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  • #24
    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
    628 likes

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  • #25
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: experimentation, failure
    330 likes

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  • #26
    Yohji Yamamoto
    “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
    ― Yohji Yamamoto
    tags: disorder, distortion, failure, perfection, scars
    320 likes

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  • #27
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Lucy: You learn more when you lose
    Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury
    tags: failure, learning, wisdom
    141 likes

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  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: achievements, failure, luck, near-hits, near-misses, nearly, success
    104 likes

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  • #29
    Maxwell Maltz
    “You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”
    ― Maxwell Maltz
    tags: failure, inspirational, life, mistakes, motivation, motivational, success
    116 likes



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