Insightful Quotes
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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” (Thomas Jefferson)
“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” (Frederick Wilcox, Writer)
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” (Marian Anderson, 1902-1993, Concert and Opera Singer)
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.” (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, Writer and Lecturer)
“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.” (Greg Evans, Novelist)
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.” (Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, Inventor and Entrepreneur)
“One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” (Ida Scott Taylor, 1820-1915, Author)
“I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” (Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator and Author)
“People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.” (Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007, Opera Singer)
“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” (Art Linkletter, Radio and TV Personality)
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” (Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor)
“Are we at the bottom? The only time you see the bottom is in the rearview mirror – after you’re past it.” (Chris Mygatt, president Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Colorado)
“Patience is also a form of action.” (Francois Auguste Rene Rodin 1840-1917, Artist)
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” (Clare Boothe Luce 1902-1987, American Diplomat and Writer)
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong, Cancer Survivor and Athlete
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” (William Feather, 1889-1981, Writer)