Inspirational Quotes - Page 40

• Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Diversity, Noble

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.102, Book Tree

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• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Today, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Motivational, Inspiring, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

  Frank Herbert

  Training, Lessons, Firsts

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Atheist, Independent

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Photography, Art, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Silence does not always mark wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wisdom, Silence, Doe

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.44

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• Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Spiritual, Expanding Universe

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• The healthiest response to life is joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Life And Death, Joy

  Twitter post from Aug 9, 2012

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• I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Moving On, Mistake, Choices

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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• You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Fear, Business

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

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• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Wisdom, Humor

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

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• At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

  Terry Waite

  Winning, Compassion, The End Of The Day

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Strength, Happiness, Strong

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Heart, Compassion

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fear, Thinking

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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  I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

  Ron White

  Funny, Encouraging, Uplifting

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Positivity, Goal

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• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Business

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tattoo, Time, Powerful

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• We accept the love we think we deserve.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Tattoo, Marriage

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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