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Inspirational Quotes
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
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"You never fail until you stop trying."
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration."
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
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"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."
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"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
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"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."
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"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
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"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
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"Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material."
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"What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?"
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"The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an environment that keeps you constantly inspired because when you're inspired, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do."
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"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."
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"I want to be like a Supernova, burn bright and die young."
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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
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"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
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"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced."
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"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."
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"Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional."
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"Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams."
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"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
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"Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life."
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"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
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"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn."
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.""
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"A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is...but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone, endure hardships and learn from what challenges them. Suffering purifies and makes beautiful, but only if the gem can shine."
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"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand--that and such hope as I bring."
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"When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?"
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"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
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"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
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"Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed."
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"What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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"Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
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"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
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