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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,770 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,170 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,759 people liked it

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
— David Byrne

tags: love
785 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success
2,432 people liked it

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

tags: inspirational, love
715 people liked it

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
260 people liked it

"My religion is kindness"
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

tags: life
657 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
862 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
809 people liked it

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
497 people liked it

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: courage, life
386 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
403 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,927 people liked it

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
— Abigail Van Buren

5 people liked it

"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
— Maya Angelou

146 people liked it

""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" "
— Maya Angelou

295 people liked it

"We need much less than we think we need."
— Maya Angelou

105 people liked it

"I sustain myself with the love of family."
— Maya Angelou

tags: family, inspirational
62 people liked it

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
— Maya Angelou

107 people liked it

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you."
— Maya Angelou

234 people liked it

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

tags: people
900 people liked it

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
— Maya Angelou

83 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
9,609 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,828 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational
1,103 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

tags: inspirational
468 people liked it

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham, lincoln, religion
238 people liked it

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
— Abraham Lincoln

155 people liked it

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

103 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

106 people liked it

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
— Abraham Lincoln

60 people liked it

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,180 people liked it

"I won't be labeled as average."
— Rachel Joy Scott

tags: inspiration
97 people liked it

"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
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— Public Enemy

tags: inspiration
69 people liked it

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: goals, inspiration
30 people liked it

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
— George Herman Ruth

tags: hard, inspiration, teamwork, work
99 people liked it

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

tags: friendship
211 people liked it

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
— Harry S. Truman

tags: accomplishment, inspirational, modesty
54 people liked it

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."
— Maya Angelou

81 people liked it

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things"
— Maya Angelou

56 people liked it

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dr-, seuss
284 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
2,000 people liked it

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
— Abraham Lincoln

38 people liked it

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
— Abraham Lincoln

36 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,448 people liked it

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

tags: happiness, man, trouble
148 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
404 people liked it

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life
224 people liked it

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