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Wise sayings

I owe my success to the fact that I never made excuses or accepted excuses from others.
Florencia Nightingale

The question I ask myself almost every day is: 'Am I doing the most important thing I can?'

Mark Zuckerberg

The question is not who is going to let me go; it is who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Learn to say "I don't know," and that will already be progress.
Moses Maimonides, philosopher

You should not blame your child for being afraid of the dark. A real tragedy is when an adult is afraid of the light.
Plato

In football, as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi

We cannot be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Jeff Bezos

Science is organised knowledge, wisdom is organised life. 

Emmanuel Kant

The person you are destined to become is only the person you decide to become.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You'll never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí

Success has no secrets. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

The speed of the head is more important than that of the legs.
Xavi Hernández

I never think about the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences, you are thinking about a negative outcome.
Michael Jordan

What you think, you will become. What you feel, you will attract. What you imagine, you will create
Buda

Only those who attempt the absurd are capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno

Mystery is the most beautiful thing we can experience. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

Life must be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Søren Kierkegaard

Knowing what to do eliminates fear 

Rosa Parks

Much can be done with hatred, but even more with love.
Shakespeare

See the world. It's far more fantastic than any dream.

Ray Bradbury

When love is the norm, there is no will to power, and where power is imposed, love is lacking.
Carl Jung

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. Pierpont Morgan

Someone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.

David Ben-Gurion

The hardest part is starting to act; everything else depends only on perseverance. 

Amelia Earhart

Winning isn't everything; everything is a constant desire to win.

Vince Lombardi

If you believe you can do something, you are right; if you believe nothing will work out for you, you are also right.

Henry Ford

Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Setting a goal is the starting point for all achievements.

William Clement Stone

New day, new thoughts, new hopes, and new opportunities

Lailah Gifty Akita

Uncertainty is always there, dismantling our comfort when we most believe it will be eternal.

Pancho Antonio Benjumea

It is better to act with the risk and regret than to regret not having done anything.
Giovanni Boccaccio

I love pigs. Dogs look at us from the bottom up, cats from the top down. Only pigs look at us as equals.
Winston Churchill.

Most of the great things that man has achieved were declared impossible before someone did them.
Louis D. Brandeis

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The surest way to succeed is to try one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Every failure teaches the individual something he or she needed to learn
Charles Dickens

Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year round

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success

James Cameron

When I let go of who I am, I become who I can be.
Lao Tse

To remain silent and burn is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves

Federico García Lorca

You will never reach your destination if you throw stones at every barking dog.
Winston Churchill

To hit a nail, you have to hit a horseshoe a hundred times.

Miguel de Unamuno

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl, but keep moving towards your goal.
Martin Luther King

Those who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Francisco de Quevedo

Your person is not the one with whom 'it is right'; with many people it is possible to be right. Yours is the one for whom 'without you it's wrong'.
Erich Maria Remarque


Tu persona no es aquella con la que ‘se está bien’; con muchas personas se puede estar bien. La tuya es aquella para la que ‘sin ti está mal’ 

Erich Maria Remarque


Just imagine how precious it can be to take a risk and have it all work out.

Mario Benedetti

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be sure of a good result than to expect an excellent one.
Warren Buffett

Success is not only achieved through special qualities. It is, above all, a work of constancy, method and organisation.
Victor Hugo

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

When one door to happiness closes, another immediately opens. But we often look at the former for so long that we don't notice the latter.
Helen Keller

There is no need to go backwards or to give yourself a boost.
Lao Tse

Every morning you have two choices: keep complaining about life or do something to change it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea

Miguel de Cervantes

If you're going to look back, let it be to see what you've worked for to get where you are.

Mireia Belmonte.

Only those who dare to have great failures, end up achieving great successes.

Robert F. Kennedy.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Aristotle

A small leak sinks a big ship

Benjamin Franklin

Life is really simple, but we insist on complicating it.

Confucius

When I was a kid I dreamed, but I stopped dreaming and started doing, because it's the power of what comes true that makes dreams come true.

Usain Bolt

It's simple: just make it happen.

Didier Diderot.

People feel lonely because instead of bridges they build walls.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Loneliness is painful when one is young, but very pleasant when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

Always trust in the idea that your own decision to succeed is far more important than anything else.
Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is worthless if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fight not for success, but for the values it provides.

Albert Einstein

We do not choose the times. We can only decide how to live in the times that have chosen us.

John Tolkien

What matters is not what happens to you, but how you react to it.

Epictetus

Never think you know it all. And no matter how much you are valued, always have the courage to say to yourself: "I am ignorant".

Ivan Pavlov

You will not remember how much money you have or how many businesses you created. You will remember the people you loved and the time you spent with them.

Boño Martínez

Everything has its own beauty, but not everyone can see it.
Confucius

Ignorance of the law does not exempt from liability. But knowledge often does.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

It is not death that you have to fear, but never to begin to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Always choose the most difficult path: you will find no competitors on it.
Carl de Gaulle

Start from where you are now. Use what you have and do the best you can.
Arthur Ashe

We call a situation hopeless if we don't like the way out.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist hopes it will change;
the realist trims the sails

Hold on to your dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a bird with broken wings that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

Whatever a man's mind can grasp and believe, he can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Life is what happens to you while you're making plans. 

John Lennon

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

There are two types of people: those who roll the world, and those who run alongside and shout, "Oh, God, where is this world going?" 

Jules Renard

The two most important days of your life: the day you were born and the day you realised why.
Mark Twain

How wonderful that you don't have to wait a minute to start making the world a better place.
Anne Frank

He who has faith in himself does not need others to believe in him.
Miguel de Unamuno

Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one thinks about how to change himself.
Lev Tolstoy

The great lesson of life is never to be afraid of anything or anyone

Frank Sinatra

The target is not always meant to be reached, it often serves merely as a goal to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you have to move forward.
Albert Einstein.

Logic can take you from point A to point B, but imagination can take you anywhere. 

Albert Einstein

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look is change.
Wayne Dyer

You learn faster in three cases: before the age of 7, during training and when life pushes you into a corner.
Stephen Covey

It is important to believe that talent is given to us for a reason and that, whatever the cost, it must be used for something.
Marie Curie

If an inner voice tells you that you cannot draw, draw as much as you can, then this voice will fade away.
Vincent van Gogh

The world is divided into two classes: some believe in the unbelievable, others do the impossible.
Oscar Wilde

Only those who try nothing new never make mistakes.
Albert Einstein

There are three things in life that once they happen, they don't come back: time, words and opportunities.
Folk wisdom

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to become even smarter, then read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Success is a journey, not a destination. Often, the realization is more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

80% of success is showing up in the right place at the right time 

Woody Allen

Twenty years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Mark Twain

Over the years I have learned that when you make a decision, fear diminishes.
Rosa Parks

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Eugene O’Neill 

The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

Lionel Barrymore

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

 Dan Millman 

It is as difficult to quarrel with an intelligent person as it is to make peace with a stupid one.
Popular wisdom

Walk confidently towards your dreams. Live the life you created for yourself.
Henry David Thoreau

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll  

Happiness is good health and bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman


Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.

 Amelia Earhart

People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou, writer and poet

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain


Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Alice Walker


The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
Chinese proverb


The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean will not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not so important how slowly you walk but how long you walk without stopping.
Confucius

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle 

Some things may capture your attention, but concentrate on those things that capture your heart.
Indian proverb


Behind every brave and determined person, there is a story that wounded them and made them stronger.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar 

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

John Barrymore

Celebrate your own victories, because no one else truly understands what it took to achieve them.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the plane takes off against the wind.
Henry Ford.

In the midst of every difficulty there is opportunity.

Albert Einstein



Start doing everything you can do, and even everything you can dream of. There is genius, strength and magic in courage.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela 


You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar 


It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

 Alfred Tennyson 


In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

 Albert Camus

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

 Robert Frost

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

 Buddha


The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates 


Always remember: your focus determines your reality.

George Lucas


Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 

George Bernard Shaw

It is not our business to dictate to God how he should govern this world.

Niels Bohr

The more I study nature, the more I am amazed by the works of the Creator.

Louis Pasteur

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle

 Albert Einstein 

Keep smiling, because life is beautiful and there are many reasons to smile.
Marilyn Monroe

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness

Confucius

The greatest glory of life is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela


What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche

I am certain: you must not let the miserable word "impossible" stop you.
Richard Branson

Turn your great thoughts into great actions as quickly as possible.

Remember that failure to achieve success is sometimes also a great good fortune.
Dalai Lama


Smile costs less than electricity and gives more light


Problems don't come alone, but neither does good luck.

Romain Rolland


If there is no wind, take the oars.
Latin proverb

The true beauty of life is in the little details we overlook.

Action is the fundamental key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

You should always start with something that raises doubts.

Boris Strugatsky


Don't find the fault, find the remedy.

Henry Ford


Either you control your day or the day controls you.

Jim Rohn

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. 

Mae West

Contributing to the world is the only way to be happy.

Hans Christian Andersen

Never falling is not life's greatest achievement. The main thing is to get up every time.

Nelson Mandela

The only happiness in life is the constant effort forward.

Emile Zola

It is not the strongest who survive, but the most receptive to change.

Carlos Darwin

If you think about what you have in life, you can always have more. If you think about what you don't have, you'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Our consciousness is everything. You become what you think.

Buddha

Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, but more wisely.

Henry Ford

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.

Leo Tolstoy

Defeat is not defeat unless you recognize it as such in your mind.

Bruce Lee

It's not enough to know; you have to use that knowledge. It's not enough to want something; you have to do it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

A person is successful if they wake up in the morning, go back to bed at night, and do what they love during their rest.

Bob Dylan

All children are artists. The problem is remaining an artist once you've grown up.

Pablo Picasso

I am not a victim of circumstances; I am the result of my decisions.

Stephen Covey, consultant

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing optimism.

Winston Churchill

Happiness isn't something ready-made. Happiness depends only on your actions.

Dalai Lama

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret something that made you smile.

Those who has a "why" to live by can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Action is the fundamental key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Crave it, chase it, but if necessary, let it go

Juan Armando Corbin

I speak to everyone the same way, whether it's the garbage man or the university president.

Albert Einstein

You just have to believe you can, and you're already halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

You must love life more than the meaning of life. 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Feelings cannot be ignored, no matter how unfair they may seem.

Anne Frank

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