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Inspirational Quotations #180

July 30, 2007 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
—Wayne Gretzky (Canadian Sportsperson)

Be this his praise, if praise be needed, as a father he succeeded.
—Edgar Guest (English-born American Poet)

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
—Julius Nyerere

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,|My love as deep; the more I give to thee,|The more I have, for both are infinite.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

A life without love is like a year without summer.
—Swedish Proverb

More children are punished for copying their parents, than for disobeying them. We should be what we want to see.
—Unknown

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
—Ernest Hemingway (American Author)

You’ll never prove you’re too good for a job by not doing your best.
—Ethel Merman (American Actor)

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky (Canadian Sportsperson)

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.|The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;|Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;|Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear|The sound of wings.
—Amelia Earhart (American Aviator)

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