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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Happiness, Want

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

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Encouragement, Connections

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

  Susane Colasanti

  Distance, Looks, Answers

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.162, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Inspiration, Clear Goals

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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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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• 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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