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  • #1
    Thomas A. Edison
    “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: laziness, opportunity, work
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  • #2
    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: change, opportunity, self-determination, wisdom
    755 likes

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  • #3
    When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
    “When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
    ― Stephen Richards
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  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: fear, life, opportunity
    1354 likes

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  • #5
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
    4570 likes

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  • #7
    “Diet food is for lazy people.”
    ― Ice-T
    tags: dieting, food, lazy
    6 likes

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  • #8
    “Excuses are actually made for lazy People"
    -Samar Sudha”
    ― Samar Sudha
    tags: excusess, lazy
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  • #9
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
    tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women
    1370 likes

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  • #10
    Ronald Reagan
    “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: humor, laziness, sloth, work
    234 likes

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  • #11
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
    ― Tchaikovsky
    tags: inspiration, laziness
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  • #12
    Stephen Richards
    “Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”
    ― Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
    tags: dawdle, defer, delay, dilly-dallying, laziness, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-off, stephen-richards, time-management
    83 likes

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  • #13
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: karma, life
    1741 likes

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  • #14
    Cat Adams
    “It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get." Notice that I didn't say couldn't get worse. It can always get worse. I know this. And thus I refuse to tempt fate. Superstitious - probably. But magic exists. So does karma, and karma can be a bitch.”
    ― Cat Adams, Blood Song
    87 likes

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  • #15
    Rick Riordan
    “Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: fate, karma
    91 likes

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  • #16
    Kathleen Brooks
    “But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is,”
    ― Kathleen Brooks
    tags: bluegrass-state-of-mind, karma, kathleen-brooks
    82 likes

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  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling
    711 likes

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  • #18
    Spencer Johnson
    “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
    ― Spencer Johnson
    tags: honesty, integrity, moral-courage, truth-telling
    603 likes

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  • #19
    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
    589 likes

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  • #20
    Thomas Hardy
    “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: truth-telling
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  • #21
    “Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: consideration, kind, kindness, truth, truth-telling, truthfulness
    171 likes

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  • #22
    Anne Lamott
    “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: authenticity, genuineness, honesty, kindness, self-awareness, truth-telling
    113 likes

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  • #23
    Ann Aguirre
    “Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
    ― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace
    tags: secrets, sharing-secrets, truth-telling
    98 likes

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  • #24
    Bryant McGill
    “You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
    tags: feelings, love, truth-telling
    20 likes

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  • #25
    Amit Kalantri
    “Sometimes hearing the truth takes more courage than speaking the truth.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: courage, forthrightness, honesty, leadership, lies, reality, straightforward, truth, truth-telling, truthfulness
    16 likes

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  • #26
    Douglas Kennedy
    “We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.”
    ― Douglas Kennedy, Leaving the World
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  • #27
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am not a hotel room. i am home
    i am not the whiskey you want
    i am the water you need
    don't come here with expectations
    and try to make a vacation out of me”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: love, women
    218 likes



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