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Inspirational Quotations #625

March 27, 2016 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, must be prayed for.
—Thomas Arnold

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)

Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)

Adversity is the true school of the mind.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

Few people know how to be old.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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