Smart Inspirational Quotes

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

Inspirational, Success, Teacher

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Good things come to those who wait.

Jess C Scott

Inspirational, Funny, Patience

Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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Good things come to those who hustle

Chuck Noll

Fitness, Patience, Workout

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Steve Jobs

Motivational, Business, Work

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Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Denis Waitley

Success, Attitude, Keys

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

Margaret Thatcher

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Love, Inspirational, Funny

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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If you think you can't, you're right.

Carol Bartz

Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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Good things come to those who initiate.

Susan RoAne

Patience, Fitness, Workout

Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Steve Jobs

Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

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

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