Quote Flashcards

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Victory belongs to the most persevering

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Napoleon Bonarpate. French statesman.

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell

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Aldous Huxley. English writer and philosopher

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him

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John Viscount Moley

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The greatest jihad (struggle/striving) is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.

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Prophet Muhammad (saw)

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No two things have been combined better than knowledge andpatientce.

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Prophet Muhammad (saw)

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6
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Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave

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Prophet Muhammad (saw)

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action

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Goethe

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Without haste but without rest

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Goethe

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it

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Goethe

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10
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the the hardest thing in the world is to act according to your thinking

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Goethe

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11
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Dream no small dream for they have no power to move the hearts of men

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Goethe

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12
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The coward only threatens when he’s safe

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Goethe

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13
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Marcus Aurelius

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth

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Marcus Aurelius

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15
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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Epictetus

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16
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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Epictetus

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17
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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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Epictetus

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18
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

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Henry David Thoreau. American essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”

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Corazon Aquino

20
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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

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Henry Van Dyke

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“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.”

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C. Joybell

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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. American Jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of America

23
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

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Steven Covey

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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

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Albert Einstein

25
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

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George Bernard Shaw

26
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“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”

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Michel de Montaigne

27
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries

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Rene Descartes French philosopher, mathematian, scientist.

28
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“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”

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Mother Teresa

29
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

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Confucius

30
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

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Mary Engelbreit

31
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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Reinhold Neibuhr

32
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

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Bill Keane

33
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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

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Victor Frankl

34
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“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.”

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Chinese proverb

35
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

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Hellen Adams Keller. American writer, political activist and lecturer.

36
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Doubt can only be removed by action

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Johann Wolfgang von Geothe. German writer and statesman.

37
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Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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William Jennings Bryan. Politician and Orator.

38
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity

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Jean de La Bruyere. French philosopher and moralist

39
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What is to give light must endure burning

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Victor Frankl. Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.

40
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A human being is a deciding being.

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Victor Frankl. Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.

41
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If there is no God, it will be necessary to invent Him

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François-Marie Arouet. [Voltaire]

42
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So many books, so little time

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Frank Zappa, American instrumentalist.

43
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It is the mark of an educated mind to able to entertain a thought without accepting it

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Aristotle, Philosopher