Insightful Quotes - Page 10

• If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiration, Reality, Mlm

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

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• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Humorous, Attention

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

  William James

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Business, Risk

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Success, Humor

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

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• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  "Multiple Intelligences in Practice: Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (Section 2: Using MI)". Book by Mike Fleetham, April 13, 2006.

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• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Religion

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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• A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Family, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

  Junot Diaz

  Short Love, Reading, Writing

  "Junot Díaz wins world's richest short story prize" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Money, Work

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

  Moby

  Thinking, Good Writers

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• I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

  Nancy Mitford

  Love, Children, Memorable

  Nancy Mitford (2011). “The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Years, Perspective

  "Leadership Begins With Character" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  1988 The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul, ch.1.

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• Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Self Esteem

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• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Wise, Differences

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• People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

  David Arquette

  Hurt, Divorce, People

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

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• Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

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