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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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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
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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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"You never fail until you stop trying."
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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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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
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"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."
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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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"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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"Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional."
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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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"I want to be like a Supernova, burn bright and die young."
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"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
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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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"Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams."
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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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"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced."
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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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"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
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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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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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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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"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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"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
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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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"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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"When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?"
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"On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people's successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us."
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"Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
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"I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids."
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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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"Life is magical for a lover."
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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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"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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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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