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Wise sayings

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

Winston Churchill

People feel lonely because instead of building bridges, they build walls.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Always remember: your focus determines your reality.

George Lucas

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Albert Camus

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

Mother Teresa

Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You must love life more than the meaning of life. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't dwell on the past, don't dream about the future, focus your mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Remember that not achieving success is sometimes also a great blessing.

Dalai Lama

I'm sure: you shouldn't let the miserable word "impossible" stop you.

Richard Branson

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Albert Einstein

Either you control your day, or the day controls you.

Jim Rohn

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

Abraham Lincoln

Better is the light of a single candle than a journey in total darkness.

Confucius

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Stephen Covey, consultant

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

Marilyn Monroe

When the water rises, the fish eat the ants; when it falls, the ants eat the fish. Let no one be overconfident in their current superiority.

Saint Augustine

The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in getting up every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

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

Henry Ford .

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

Lao Tzu

You should always start with something that sows doubt.

Boris Strugatsky

But silence is more powerful than so many instruments.

Miguel Hernández

It is important to believe that talent is given to us for a reason and that, at any cost, it must be used for something.

Marie Curie

If there's no wind, grab the oars.

Latin proverb

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

Aristotle

Turn your big thoughts into big actions as quickly as possible

It is not death you should fear, but never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

Some things may catch your attention, but focus on those that capture your heart.

Indian proverb

A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light

There is no barrier, lock, or bolt that you can impose on freedom of mind.

Virginia Woolf

Action is the fundamental key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Don't find the fault, find the remedy.

Henry Ford.

Love consists of one soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Knowing is not enough; knowledge must be used. Wanting something is not enough; one must do it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

Albert Einstein

Nothing costs us so little and is valued so much as courtesy.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Charles Darwin

Never falling is not life's greatest achievement. The most important thing is getting back up every time.

Nelson Mandela

A child with a book of poetry in his hands will never, when he grows up, have a weapon in them.

Gloria Fuertes

If you dwell on what you have in life, you can always have more. If you believe in what you don't have, you'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

The true beauty of life lies in the small details we overlook.

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

Niels Bohr

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

Carl de Gaulle

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

Hans Christian Andersen

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

Romain Rolland

The only happiness in life is the constant effort forward.

Emile Zola

It is always necessary to systematically create confusion; this unleashes creativity. Everything contradictory creates life.

Salvador Dalí

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Pablo Picasso

Failure is simply an opportunity to start over, but in a wiser way.

Henry Ford

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

Bob Dylan

He who has a "why" to live can face all the hows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is not something ready-made. Happiness depends solely on your actions.

Dalai Lama

Our consciousness is everything. You become what you think.

Buddha

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

Winston Churchill

Action is the fundamental key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Happiness is the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

Aristotle

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

Albert Einstein

Feelings cannot be ignored, however unfair they may seem.

Anne Frank

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

Steve Jobs

Logic can get you from point A to point B, but imagination can take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

Glory crowns the actions of those who expose themselves to danger

Alexander the Great

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

A drop of pure courage is worth more than a cowardly ocean.

Miguel Hernández

Long for it, pursue it, but if necessary, let it go

Juan Armando Corbin

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

Bruce Lee

You just have to believe you can and you're already halfway to your goal.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Florence 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's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

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

Moses Maimonides, philosopher

You shouldn't 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 rigor and precision.

Lionel Messi

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Jeff Bezos

Science is organized knowledge; wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Christopher Columbus

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 failures.

Colin Powell

Head speed is more important than leg speed

Xavi Hernández

I never think about the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences, you're 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.

Buddha

Only those who rehearse the absurd are capable of conquering 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 backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Knowing what needs to be done eliminates fear.

Rosa Parks

Much can be done with hate, 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 prevails, 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 is not realistic.

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 are capable of something, you are right; if you believe that nothing will turn out well for you, you are also right.

Henry Ford

Everything you've 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

Defining 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 last forever.

Pancho Antonio Benjumea

It is better to act and risk regretting it than to regret not having done anything.

Giovanni Boccaccio

I love pigs. Dogs look down on us, cats look down on us. Only pigs look down on us as equals. Winston Churchill

Most of the great things that man has achieved were declared impossible before anyone 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 they needed to learn.

Charles Dickens

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

If you set ridiculously high goals and fail, you will fail above the success of everyone else.

James Cameron

To remain silent and burn out is the greatest punishment we can inflict upon ourselves.

Federico García Lorca

You'll never reach your destination if you throw stones at every barking dog.

Winston Churchill

The way to hit the nail once is to hit the 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

He who spends his time regretting the past, loses the present and risks the future.

Francisco de Quevedo

You're not the person everyone "gets along well" with; you can get along well with many people. You're the person for whom "everything is bad without you."

Erich Maria Remarque


Just imagine how wonderful it can be to take a risk and have everything turn out well.

Mario Benedetti

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

Winston Churchill

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's better to be sure of a good result than to expect an excellent one.

Warren Buffett

Success is not achieved solely through special qualities. It is, above all, a matter of perseverance, method, and organization.

Victor Hugo

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

Helen Keller

There's no need to go backwards, not even to gain momentum.

Lao Tzu

Every morning you have two options: 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

Doing good to villains is like pouring 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 fail greatly ever achieve great success. - Robert F. Kennedy

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

Aristotle

A small leak sinks a great ship

Benjamin Franklin

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

Confucius

As a child I dreamed, but I stopped dreaming and started doing, because it is the power of action that makes dreams come true.

Usain Bolt

It's simple: just make it happen.

Didier Diderot.

Loneliness is painful when you're young, but very pleasant when you're more mature

Albert Einstein

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't strive for success, but for the values it provides.

Albert Einstein

We don't choose the times. We can only decide how to live in the times that have been chosen for us.

John Tolkien

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

Epictetus

Never think you know everything. And no matter how much others value you, always have the courage to say to yourself, "I am ignorant."

Ivan Pavlov

You won't 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 is no excuse. But knowledge often is.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

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

Arthur Ashe

We say that a situation is desperate if we don't like the solution.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The pessimist complains about the wind;

The optimist expects it to change;

the realist adjusts the sails

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

Langston Hughes

Everything that the mind of a man can comprehend and believe, he can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

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

John Lennon

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

Lao Tzu

There are two types of people: those who make the world go round and those who run alongside it 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 realized why.

Mark Twain

How wonderful it is that you don't have to wait a single 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 themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Frank Sinatra

The objective is not always meant to be achieved; often it simply serves as a goal to aim for.

Bruce Lee

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to keep moving.

Albert Einstein.

When you change the way you see things, the things you see change.

Wayne Dyer

You learn faster in three cases: before the age of 7, during training, and when life corners you.

Stephen Covey

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 never try anything new never make mistakes.

Albert Einstein

There are three things in life that once they're gone, they never come back: time, words, and opportunities

Popular wisdom

I'd 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 more intelligent, then read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein


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

Arthur Ashe

80% of success is being in the right place at the right time - Woody Allen.

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

Mark Twain

Over the years I have learned that when you make a decision, the 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 bothers them more.

Oscar Wilde

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

Dan Millman

It's as difficult to argue with an intelligent person as it is to make peace with a stupid one.

Popular wisdom

Walk confidently toward 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 head in 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 a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman


Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

The hardest part is the decision to act; the rest is just 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 such a sweet, firm, loyal, and lasting nature that it will last a lifetime if no money is borrowed from it.

Mark Twain

Don't wait for others to be happy for you. All the happiness you achieve, you'll have to create yourself.

Alice Walker


The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next opportune 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 is not dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi


It's not so much how slowly you walk, but how long you walk without stopping.

Confucius

Don't let the criticism distract you. Remember: the only taste of success some people get is by biting 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 you to achieve them.


In the midst of every difficulty lies 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 being great.

Zig Ziglar


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

Alfred Tennyson


Being yourself in a world that constantly tries to turn you into something else is the greatest achievement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


In three words I can summarize everything I've learned about life: life goes on.

Robert Frost

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