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"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
17,829 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
15,747 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,311 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,222 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
9,090 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
7,905 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,548 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,733 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,113 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
5,591 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,063 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,207 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,942 people liked it

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
2,900 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,918 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,070 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,855 people liked it

"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
2,939 people liked it

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
1,214 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,290 people liked it

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, politics, presidential
792 people liked it

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

tags: life
1,262 people liked it

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: adversity, character, power
347 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

371 people liked it

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"
— Abraham Lincoln

122 people liked it

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
— Abraham Lincoln

102 people liked it

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: freedom, liberty
116 people liked it

"A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

39 people liked it

""And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

29 people liked it

"We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

8 people liked it

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women
426 people liked it

"He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool."
— Brigham Young

tags: inspirational
14 people liked it

"A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
— Jim Bouton

tags: baseball, life
2 people liked it

"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."
— Tommy Lasorda

tags: baseball, life, winning
4 people liked it

"If poet’s verses be but stories,
So be food and garments stories;
So is all the world a story;
So is man of dust a story.

... And since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring."
— St. Columbcille

tags: story
1 person liked it

"All stories are true, and some of them actually happened."
— Irish Proverb

tags: stories, tuth
6 people liked it

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor
1,329 people liked it

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.""
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

tags: life
436 people liked it

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: dreams
184 people liked it

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
— Calvin Coolidge

tags: persistence
49 people liked it

"Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we endeavor to restrain the vicious, and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace."
— Calvin Coolidge

tags: government, religion
9 people liked it

""There is no dignity
quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
as living within your means."
"
— Calvin Coolidge

5 people liked it

"Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
— Calvin Coolidge

7 people liked it

"Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?

Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."

Calvin: Academia, here I come!"
— Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat)

tags: education, humor
201 people liked it

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
428 people liked it

"Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government."
— Ezra Taft Benson (The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner)

tags: benson, ezra, rights, taft
7 people liked it

"'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: courage, fear
17 people liked it

"To See a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
— William Blake

tags: inspirational
145 people liked it

"Love people, not things; use things, not people. "
— Spencer W. Kimball

19 people liked it

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

tags: spirituality
30 people liked it

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