Inspiration Quotes - Page 5

• When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Letting Go

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• Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Effectiveness, Worst

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, People, Stories

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• High expectations are the key to everything.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Sam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores" by Thomas C. Hayes, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1992.

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Dream, Law Of Attraction

  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran's speech at The Chancellor's Dinner, Mansion House, www.city.ac.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• Come to the edge.
  We might fall.
  Come to the edge.
  It's too high!
  Come to the edge!
  And they came,
  and he pushed,
  and they flew.

  Christopher Logue

  Fall, Creativity, Might

  "Come to the Edge" l. 1 (1969)

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• And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Brother, Father, Son

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.17, Anza Publishing

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• Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Art, Requirements, Humans

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• Those things that hurt, instruct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurt, Grief, Teaching

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• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Divine Inspiration, Portions

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Long, Literature

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Laughter, Sunshine

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Single, Hero

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Godly, Night

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  Carl Jung

  Life And Love, Health, Adventure

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Exercise

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• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architect

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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