Brilliance Quotes

• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Dazzle, Baffled

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

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• Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Waiting, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 08, 2015

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Honesty, Inspirational Life

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dog, Real, Order

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• A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Passion, Sunset, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• Always remember your brilliance.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Unique, Remember, Uniqueness

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, People, Envy

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• What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Jewels, Wonderful

  Thomas Mann (1992). “Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years”, Vintage

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• Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, People, Giving

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• Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

  Roger von Oech

  People, Working Together, Ordinary

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• The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

  Criss Jami

  Sitting Still, Order, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

  Jose Marti

  Stars, Men, Light

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• One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Generosity, Actors, Performances

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• Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

  Confucius

  Life, Wise, Organization

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• Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Sadness, Joy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 12, 2016

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• No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

  John Mortimer

  Law, Common Sense, Nails

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Jewels, Should Have

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Average, Deep Thought

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

  Michael Robotham

  True Friend, Father, Lying

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