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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”
― Dale Carnegie

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
― Bertrand Russell

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
― Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”
― Muhammad Ali

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
― René Descartes

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”
― Oprah Winfrey