Quotations

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“Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.”
Sir Ken Robinson

"The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity."
"And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."
  -- Dr. Miranda Jones and Spock, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?",
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“I am strong because I've been weak. I am fearless because I've been afraid. I am wise because I've been foolish.”
Unknown

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill

“All great achievements require time.”
Maya Angelou

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
Matthew Jeffers

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
Robert Tew

“Excuses are born out of fear. Eliminate your fear and there will be no excuses.”
Unknown

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, bring others along.”
Unknown

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
Bruce Lee

“Argue for your limitations, and surely they’re yours.”
Richard Bach

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
Six Degrees of Separation

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Unknown

“What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself.”
Karen Salmansohn

“There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.”
Unknown

Education is what you get when you read the fine print
Experience is what you get when you don't
Unknown

“The cure to boredom is curiosity.”
Unknown

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C. S. Lewis

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”
Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Failure is just practice for success.”
Unknown

“Don't let perfection become procrastination. Do it now.”
Danielle LaPorte

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Unknown

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads you to wisdom.”
Buddha

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Unknown

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
Unknown

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
Nicholas Klein

“Do a little more of what you want to do every day, until your idea becomes what's real.”
Unknown

"If you're not doing what you love, you're wasting your time"
Unknown

“Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh

“Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.”
Dr Roopleen

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
Stephen McCranie

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought.”
Matsuo Basho

“The surest way to find your dream job is to create it.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
Jean Luc Picard