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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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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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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Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Steve Jobs

Change, Work, Life Changing

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

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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

Success, Business, Congratulations

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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Steve Jobs

Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

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

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Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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All things come to those who wait.

Violet Fane

Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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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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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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Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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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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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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Good things come to those who hustle

Chuck Noll

Fitness, Patience, Workout

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

William Feather

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

Carol Bartz

Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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