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    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
    tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
    17090 likes

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    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    ― Edward Albee
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
    2780 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing,
    then when the day is over,
    nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    232 likes

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    Christy Raedeke
    “...If there is no risk, there is no reward.”
    ― Christy Raedeke, The Daykeeper's Grimoire
    tags: risk-taking, success
    60 likes

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    Danny Wallace
    “...maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.”
    ― Danny Wallace, Yes Man
    tags: risk-taking
    75 likes

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    Earl Nightingale
    “Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.”
    ― Earl Nightingale
    tags: danger, motivational, opportunity, risk-taking, success
    55 likes

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    Susan Mallery
    “It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.”
    ― Susan Mallery, Almost Perfect
    tags: courage, love, risk-taking
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Albert Einstein
    “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
    2234 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Bob Dylan
    “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: bob-dylan, music, success
    1668 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
    2157 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, change, destiny, empowerment, inspirational, life, mistakes, motivational, success
    744 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “Success is getting what you want..
    Happiness is wanting what you get.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
    tags: happiness, success
    672 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
    316 likes

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    Po Bronson
    “If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
    ― Po Bronson
    tags: expectation, success, watermelon
    60 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: day, inspirational, life, motivational, power, success
    50 likes

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  • #22
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, success
    668 likes

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    John C. Maxwell
    “Success is...
    knowing your purpose in life,
    growing to reach your maximum potential, and
    sowing seeds that benefit others.”
    ― John C. Maxwell
    tags: success
    288 likes

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  • #24
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    129174 likes

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    Lorraine Reguly
    “Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!”
    ― Lorraine Reguly
    tags: on-being-clever
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
    7677 likes

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    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
    2961 likes

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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: life, unfairness
    3226 likes

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    Steven Wright
    “I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, writing
    222 likes



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