Inspiring Quotes - Page 28

• Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

  Francois Hollande

  Drug, Fuel, Weapons

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• It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

  Alison Gopnik

  Player, Years, Chess

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• If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Investing, Economic

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• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  Ogden Nash

  Mothers Day, Dog, Juice

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• Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

  Paul Kagame

  Technology, Keys, Economic

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• With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Technology, Generations, Economic

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• Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Fighting, Men, Feminist

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• We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

  Francis Maude

  Mothers Day, Home, Thinking

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• Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Character, Destiny

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Mothers Day, Motherhood, Thinking

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Graduation, Opportunity, Impact

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Graduation, Jobs, Smart

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.

  Christian Louboutin

  Graduation, Dream, Age

  "Christian Louboutin Addresses FIT Graduates". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 23, 2014.

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• If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Graduation, Believe, Advice

  "Montclair State University Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Serious, Mysterious

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• A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Warrior

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• I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Patient

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  Nelson Mandela

  Enjoy Life, Challenges, Disease

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• War is not women's history.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Empowering

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• So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Order, Sorrow

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Smart, Thinking, Long

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Soul, Influential

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Brother, Moving, Grandmother

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Running, Knowing, Bills

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