It Is What It Is Quotes

• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Reason

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• It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

  Pat Summitt

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• I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

  NeNe Leakes

  Knowing, People, Trying

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

  Mira Grant

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.346, Hachette UK

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is what it is. Either walk on, or accept.

  Deborah Lawrenson

  Accepting, Walks

  Deborah Lawrenson (2011). “The Lantern”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

  John Szarkowski

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Innovation, Life Is, Illusion

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

  Nicole Kidman

  Break Up, Breakup, Being Positive

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 14, 2014

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

  Zakk Wylde

  War, Faces, Face Your Fears

  Song: Fire It Up

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