August 2023 collected quotes

~ August 2023 collected quotes ~

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"Be yourself. The world worships the original."

- Ingrid Bergman

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"He who has a why in life can tolerate almost any how."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing."

- Wilt Chamberlain

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"Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

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"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

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"Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives."

- Oprah Winfrey

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"Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- The Notorious RBG

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"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

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"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It’s very easy to say yes."

- Tony Blair

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"To be a good leader you have to be a great listener… No one has a monopoly on good ideas or good advice."

- Richard Branson

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"The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

- Shakespeare

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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

- Thomas Paine

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"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

- Freud

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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed."

- William Faulkner

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"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones."

- John Lennon

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"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people."

- Warren Buffett

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"We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together… Getting help isn’t a sign of weakness — it’s a sign of strength."

- Michelle Obama

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"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

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"The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves."

-P.D. James

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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Love is a great beautifier."

- Louisa May Alcott

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"Love does not rule, it cultivates."

- Goethe

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"Your first love has no beginning or end. Your first love is not your first love, and it is not your last. It is just love. It is one with everything."

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

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"I was in love, and love makes all men frantic."

- Euripides

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"Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I’m convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state."

- Cory Booker

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"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."

- James Baldwin

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"When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art."

- Tony Bennett

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"Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped."

- Carl Sagan

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"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

- E.M. Forster

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"I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character."

- Anne Frank

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"One shouldn’t praise the day before the evening."

- common idiom

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"Without great solitude, no serious work is possible."

- Pablo Picasso

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"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- Les Brown

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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas Edison

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Ask yourself the question: “Will this matter a year from now?”

- Richard Carlson

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"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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"You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you."

- Roger Federer

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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

- John Wooden

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"You mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it."

- Tina Fey

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"Success doesn't change you. Fame does."

- Whitney Houston

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"I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."

- Sylvia Plath

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"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

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"Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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"Ordinary mind is itself the way."

- Mazu Daoyi

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"Silence is more appropriate to Zen than speech."

- Roshi Philip Kapleau

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"Breath sweeps mind."

- Jakusho Kwong

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"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

- Neil Armstrong

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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Forever – is composed of Nows."

- Emily Dickinson

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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

-Russell Baker

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"Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time."

- Nick Hornby

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"There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them."

- Molly Haskell

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"The past isn’t quaint while you’re in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life’s been squeezed into."

- Margaret Atwood

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"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar."

- William Faulkner

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"Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other people don't see."

- Trevor Paglen

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"Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening."

- Groucho Marx

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"Even the best cooks were saucepan throwers when the soufflé collapsed."

- Kerry Greenwood

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"Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us."

- Marcus Aurelius

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"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

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"Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills."

-B.R. Myers

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“If you can breakdance, that’s cool. If you can breakdance in a straitjacket, that’s even better.”

- Terrance Hayes

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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."

-Dorothy Parker

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"When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong."

- Benjamin HoffRania Al-Abdullah

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"We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share."

- Rania Al-Abdullah

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"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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"If you hear a voice within you saying, “You are not a painter,” then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working."

- Vincent van Gogh

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

- Andy Warhol

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up."

- Isabel Allende

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"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."

- Julio Cortázar

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"Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones."

- Bruce Garrabrandt

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"In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test."

- John McCain

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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

- Martin Amis

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"The world is changed by your example, not your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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"The future must see the broadening of human rights throughout the world. People who have glimpsed freedom will never be content until they have secured it for themselves."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”

- bell hooks

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"Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else."

- Mister Rogers

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"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"The only safe thing is to take a chance."

- Elaine May

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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

- Gloria Steinem

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"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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