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#1

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

tags: faith, inspirational, understanding

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#2

“God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.”
― David Livingstone

tags: god, inspirational

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#3

“Clarify your vision and you will make better decisions about people, processes, finances, strategies, and customers.”
― Gino Wickman, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

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#4

“Vision without traction is merely hallucination.”
― Gino Wickman, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

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#5

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
― John Wooden

tags: attitude, excellence, inspirational

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#6

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden

tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image

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#7

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

tags: excuses

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#8

“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
― John Wooden

tags: coaching, teaching

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#9

“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

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#10

“True individuality can be lonely.”
― Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

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#11

“I am far too busy enjoying life to be limited by acting my age”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

tags: aging-gracefully, inspirational, motivational

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#12

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#13

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#14

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#15

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#16

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#17

“Unbelief is a decision of the will, but doubt tends to bubble up within the context of faith.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

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#18

“The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: books, inner-voice, leaders, parents, right, teachers, true-to-self, wring

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#19

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#20

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

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#21

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

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#22

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
― Alan Cohen

tags: movement

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