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Inspirational Quotations #518

March 9, 2014 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
—Barbara De Angelis (American Lecturer)

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
—Caroline Kennedy (American Author)

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

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