Insightful Quotes - Page 9

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

  Howard Stern

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

  "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

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• You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Different, Stories

  Zadie Smith (2005). “Martha and Hanwell”, Penguin Hardcover

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• All lasting business is built on friendship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Business, Management

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• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Money, Desire, Waste

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Novelty, Merit

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Man is what he believes.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.377, e-artnow

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• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

  "Heal Yourself: Drug-Free Healing By the Power of New Science & Ancient Wisdom". Book by Phyllis Reardon (p. 53), January 16, 2014.

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• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

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• Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.235

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  There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

  Mark Twain

  God, Sarcastic, Education

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life”, p.92, Random House

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

  Donald Trump

  Love, Success, Beautiful

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.113, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

  Christopher Reeve

  Positive, Inspiring, Graduation

  Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Success, Kids

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• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Travel, Missing

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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