Wheels Quotes

• Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

  Stephen King

  Life, Sooner Or Later, Life Is Like

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Strength

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• The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

  Charles de Lint

  Life, Real, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Running, Health

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 20, 2015

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• Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

  Geoff Thompson

  Action, Traction

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strength, Inspiring

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• Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Thug Life, Chance

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• All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hands, Four

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.166, Penguin

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• The wheel is come full circle.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Circles, Full Circle

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [176]

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• Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Play, Balance

  Orison Swett Marden (1918). “Love's Way”

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• The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

  John Peers

  Peers, Squeaky Wheel, Replaced

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• The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Together, World

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

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• The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

  Sid Caesar

  Funny, Work, Creativity

  "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

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• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Noise, Worst

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Flying, Littles

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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• There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

  Ray Charles

  Firsts, Possibility, Spokes

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• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Ideas, Yesterday

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• Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sometimes, Turns

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.188, Penguin

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• Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

  Mark McCormack

  Failure, Desire, Energy

  Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.245, Bantam

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• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

  Josh Billings

  Business, Grease, Complaining

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• If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Waiting, Training

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• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Heaven, Glory

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• The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hurt, Pain, Different

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.392, Cambridge University Press

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

  Laozi

  Moving, Together, Wagons

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• The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Moments

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