Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives."
Inspirational Life quotes
Inspirational Life
365 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming."
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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
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"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
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"Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love."
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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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"The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world."
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"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
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"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe."
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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"...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
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"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
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"The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching."
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"From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo"
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"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking."
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends."
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"You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
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"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."
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"Happiness is in your ability to love others."
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"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
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