Quotes

I love to read quotes when I need some quick inspiration. Often a sentence or two contains a lifetime of wisdom. The below are some of my favorites:

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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

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The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stand at times of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther King Jr.

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The important thing is this: To be able to sacrifice what we are for what we could become - Charles DuBois

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breath, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

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If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

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Two roads diverged in a wood. And I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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One hundred years from now, it will not matter what car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account, or what my clothes looked like. But one hundred years from now, the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child. - Anonymous

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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Sir Edmund Hillary