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“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
Quote by Clementine Paddleford

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
Quote by Etty Hillesum

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Quote by Charles F. Kettering

“All the woulda-coulda-shouldas layin’ in the sun, talkin’ ’bout the things they woulda-coulda-shoulda done… But all those woulda-coulda-shouldas all ranaway and hid from one little did.”
Quote by Shel Silverstein

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”
Quote by Woody Guthrie

“Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only we may choose our character.”
Quote by Liam Thomas Ryder

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also — if you love them enough.”
George Washington

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
Quote by Josh Billings

“The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.”
Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.”
Quote by James Corbett

“Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.”
Quote by Robert Frost

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Quote by Caroline Kennedy

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”
Quote by Scott Adams

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
Quote By Abraham Maslow

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
Quote By Abraham Maslow

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

Quote by Mark Twain

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Winston Churchill

“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.”
Quote By Thomas J. Watson

“Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.”
Quote By Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.”
Mother Teresa

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Aristotle

“Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”
Thomas Carlyle

“Determine never to be idle… It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
Thomas Jefferson