Quotes: life

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Denis Waitley
American motivational speaker, writer and consultant 1933-

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist and journalist 1913-

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Tennessee Williams
American playwright 1911-1983

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Mae West
American actress 1892-1980

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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Ernest Hemingway
American writer 1899-1961

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Sydney Smith
English writer and cleric 1771-1845

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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Swiss philosopher and poet 1821-1881

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
George Ade
American humorist, playwright 1866-1944

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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
W. Clement Stone
American businessman and author 1902-

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Friedrich von Schiller
German poet 1759-1805

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Walter Cronkite

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Philip Adams
British career diplomat. 1915-2001

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect 1869-1959

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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual