This is an on-going thread of Quotations which have never failed to move me. These words, written by wise men, long back, will always make sense and will help troubled souls find an anchor to rest their thought flow so that they can be re-channeled in the right direction. If you have any such quote which deserves to be told and shared please post it in the comments.
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Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
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Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
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I am thankful to all those who said no, it’s because of them I did it myself.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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Many people think they want things, but they don`t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Another week has leeked away. One less week in my life. I wonder what I have to show for it. I wonder if it is possible to count these things.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all!
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The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha–which is to demean oneself.
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It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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The best way out is always through.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills.
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