Here are my favorite Quotes – I will be keep adding as I find more. You can also send me yours or add in comments.
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Think big. Challenge conventional wisdom. Think differently. Think long term”
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. -Olive Schreiner, author
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For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win – Ambani
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But there will probably come a time when we look back and say, ‘Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?'”
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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. –Gandhi
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You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden, sports coach (1910)
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“There is no road of flowers leading to glory.”
“I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.”
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.”
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
“The only sin is mediocrity.” Martha Graham, one of the best known American teachers and choreographers of modern dance.
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.”
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are eally going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.”
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both
useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the
worth of time by employing it well.”