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"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "
— J.K. Rowling- Albus Dumbeldore

9 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
6,311 people liked it

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up."
— Jesse Jackson

tags: judgement, kindness
22 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"There is no pillow so soft as a good conscience."
— French Proverb

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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
— John Muir

28 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,685 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
— Japanese Proverb

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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
— Jim Morrison

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"It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up."
— Vince Lombardi

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"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
— Mark Twain

tags: dog, famous, inspirational
251 people liked it

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. "
— Vince Lombardi

tags: accomplishment, inspirational
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""I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

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— - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

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"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."
— Vince Lombardi

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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
— Mark Twain

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"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
— Vince Lombardi

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"i havent failed i have just found 10000 ways that dont work"
— Thomas A. Edison

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"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
2,272 people liked it

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself."
— Ethel Barrymore

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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
144 people liked it

"Stand firm for what you know is right. It's wise, as I have found. The mighty oak was once a nut that simply held its ground."
— Agnes W. Thomas

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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
— Helen Keller

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"
 'Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.'
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— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

tags: loneliness
103 people liked it

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
— John F. Kennedy

123 people liked it

"Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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— Rosa Parks

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"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
444 people liked it

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: faith, inspirational
1,438 people liked it

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
— Henry David Thoreau

21 people liked it

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: injustice
190 people liked it

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: castles-in-the-air, dream, dreams, foudnation, foundations, lost, security, work
103 people liked it

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service
189 people liked it

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
— Henry David Thoreau

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"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education
326 people liked it

"The state of a family's health should never depend on the size of a family's wealth"
— Edward M. Kennedy

1 person liked it

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
110 people liked it

"A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. "
— The Dalai Lama

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"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communication, fear
63 people liked it

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
-Knute Rockne"
— Knute Rockne

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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.""
— Jim Morrison

tags: bravery, fear, freedom
140 people liked it

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
— Bob Dylan

95 people liked it

"I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do."
— Bob Dylan

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"To live outside the law you must be honest."
— Bob Dylan

31 people liked it

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
— Carol Burnett

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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
— Antonio Porchia

tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance
58 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,120 people liked it

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
1,120 people liked it

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