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"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,929 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,337 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,947 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,055 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,865 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,392 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,565 people liked it

"There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.
"
— Tupac

23 people liked it

"I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. "
— Tupac Shakur

30 people liked it

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"
— Marilyn Monroe

163 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,314 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,838 people liked it

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: ambition, dreams
125 people liked it

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

430 people liked it

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

498 people liked it

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

519 people liked it

"Get your own sh*t. Why you ridin MINE?!"
— Lil Kim (rapper)

3 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,758 people liked it

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: heartbreak, integrity, love
44 people liked it

"Big girls need big diamonds."
— Elizabeth Taylor

tags: diamonds, jewelry
10 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,669 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,738 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,203 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,257 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,729 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,875 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,196 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,972 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,677 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,727 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,404 people liked it

"If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
— Shel Silverstein

tags: poetry
369 people liked it

"Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before."
— Shel Silverstein

191 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,024 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,855 people liked it

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

tags: dr-, humor, inspirational, musical, seuss
412 people liked it

"Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dawn
39 people liked it

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
— Thomas Paine

tags: leadership
70 people liked it

"You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: horses, leadership, war
56 people liked it

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
— Peter Drucker (The Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society)

10 people liked it

"Leadership is action, not position"
— Donald H. McGannon

tags: leadership
13 people liked it

""In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.""
— Max Depree (Leadership Is an Art)

tags: inspirational, leadership
8 people liked it

"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
— Rosa Parks

tags: leadership
12 people liked it

"There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust."
— Klaus Balkenhol

tags: leadership
6 people liked it

"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders."
— Robert Townsend

8 people liked it

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
— Rosalynn Carter

tags: leadership
9 people liked it

""...always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for."

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— Leadership and Self Deception

4 people liked it

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
— Steven R. Covey

7 people liked it

"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want."
— Diane Feinstein

tags: leadership
2 people liked it

"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people."
— Cornel West

13 people liked it

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