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  • #214
    William Shakespeare
    “There's small choice in rotten apples.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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  • #215
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
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  • #216
    George Bernard Shaw
    “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: george-bernard-shaw
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  • #217
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
    tags: bernard-shaw, george-bernard-shaw, pygmalion
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  • #218
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...”
    ― Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
    tags: bird, civilization, compassion, contempt, man, time, tree
    83 likes

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  • #219
    Anthony Liccione
    “Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: contempt, covet, despise, detest, dislike, envy, failure, haters, jealousy, loathe, pride, reluctant, successful, want
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  • #221
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the door.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
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  • #222
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
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  • #223
    Alexander Pope
    “We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]”
    ― Alexander Pope, The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Major Works 1725-1744, Vol. II
    tags: contempt, greed, materialism, money, riches, value
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  • #224
    Jennifer Brown
    “We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reached out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.”
    ― Jennifer Brown, Hate List
    tags: anger, blame, contempt, fathers-and-daughters, parents, resentment
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  • #225
    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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  • #226
    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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  • #227
    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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  • #228
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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  • #229
    W.P. Kinsella
    “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
    ― W.P. Kinsella
    tags: happiness, success
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  • #230
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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  • #231
    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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  • #232
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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  • #233
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: frienship, success
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  • #234
    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
    2233 likes

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  • #235
    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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  • #236
    Steve Maraboli
    “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: ability, action, gratitude, happiness, inspirational, life, motivational, moving-forward, problems, success
    2033 likes

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  • #237
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
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  • #238
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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  • #239
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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  • #240
    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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  • #241
    At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
    “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: appreciation, excuses, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, no-regrets, seize-the-day, success
    1422 likes

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  • #242
    “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
    tags: determination, perseverance, success
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  • #243
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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  • #244
    When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
    “When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
    ― Stephen Richards
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