Insightful Quotes - Page 8

• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Racing

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Past, Loser

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• Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

  John C. Maxwell

  Life, Change, Believe

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• Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

  Richard DeVos

  Life, Relationship, Money

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• The game isn't over till it's over.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• It may be those who do most, dream most.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press

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• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

  Jim Carrey

  Hard Work, Feel Better, Sandwiches

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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Evil, Giving

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• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Uplifting, Kindness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby

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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

  Wally Amos

  Life, Success, Cheer

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Encouragement, Connections

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• They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Moments, Our Relationship

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• Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

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• I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

  Bill Parcells

  Confidence, Like You, Genuine

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• Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

  Roy H. Williams

  Life, Money, Buying

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• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Happiness, Want

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• Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

  Joan Rivers

  Breakup, Divorce, Unhappy

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

  Joss Whedon

  Atheist, Lines, Devotion

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