Smart Quotes - Page 28

• Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

  Rick Riordan

  Black, Delight, Bottom

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.76, Penguin UK

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• I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

  Veronica Roth

  Brave, Divergent, Selfless

  "Divergent and the Gospel (Part II): Vanquishing Weakness, Cultivating Strength" by Jacob Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, People, Matter

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• When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Brother, Boys

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• What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

  Laini Taylor

  Fun, Book, Lovely

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• We become what we think about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

  Al Gore

  Positive, People, Als

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• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

  Colin Davis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Calm after the storm" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

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• You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Challenges, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 20, 2016

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Yoga, Stones

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• Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

  Sarah Carter

  Business, Mean, Opportunity

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• A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Writing, Men

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  Chris Argyris

  Teaching, Learning, Knowing

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Jobs, Organization

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• This is a gathering of Lovers.
  In this gathering
  there is no high, no low,
  no smart, no ignorant,
  no special assembly,
  no grand discourse,
  no proper schooling required.
  There is no master,
  no disciple.
  This gathering is more like a drunken party,
  full of tricksters, fools,
  mad men and mad women.
  This is a gathering of Lovers.

  Rumi

  Life, Party, Men

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

  Stan Kenton

  Funny, Music, Clever

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• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Football, Stupid, Thinking

  Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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• Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

  Steve Pavlina

  Work, Ego, Purpose

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• It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Analects".

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012

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