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"The only way to succeed is to first fail then try again"
— Joshua Billings

tags: succsess
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"There is nothing you can't do, all you have to do is gather the courage to try and do it."
— Joshua Billings

tags: life
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, the opportunist sees an opportunity in every difficulty."
— L. P. Jacks

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,194 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
17,638 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
6,686 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,157 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,846 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,827 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
2,192 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,223 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,146 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,680 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,615 people liked it

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
1,432 people liked it

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: life
1,255 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,045 people liked it

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational
1,004 people liked it

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspirational
963 people liked it

"Try a little harder to be a little better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational
950 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
924 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
913 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
857 people liked it

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, love
850 people liked it

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, reading
774 people liked it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

728 people liked it

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

727 people liked it

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hate, love
653 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

660 people liked it

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

tags: love, poetry, song
654 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
620 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
620 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
627 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
609 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
595 people liked it

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

tags: books, reading
590 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
576 people liked it

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love
551 people liked it

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
519 people liked it

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: books
483 people liked it

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

tags: challanges
473 people liked it

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

tags: humor
465 people liked it

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

tags: friendship
462 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
442 people liked it

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

432 people liked it

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

tags: convictions, death, life
428 people liked it

"Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

416 people liked it

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: human, life, value, worth
420 people liked it

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