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and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
1247. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1248. “I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.” – Abraham Lincoln
1249. “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” – Jean Cocteau
1250. “The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it.” – African proverb
1251. “Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” – Jack Lemmon
1252. “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” – Benjamin Franklin
1253. “People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning.” – Lao-Tzu
1254. “Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.” – Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
1255. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” – Anne Lamott
1256. “All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.” – Syrus
1257. “Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1258. “Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” – Oprah Winfrey
1259. “We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.” – Etty Hillesum
1260. “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” – Louis L'Amour
1261. “Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” -Bruce Crampton
1262. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
1263. “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
1264. “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson
1265. “Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.” – James Leo Herlihy
1266. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
1267. “My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.” – Thornton Wilder
1268. “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.” – Helen Keller
1269. “The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.” – Anonymous
1270. “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretsky
1271. “Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” – Buddha
1272. “It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.” – Anatole France
1273. “Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts.” – Martin Buxbaum
1274. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
1275. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
1276. “Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” – Ovid
1277. “When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.” – Vietnamese saying
1278. “Every time I think I'm getting old, something else happens.” – Lillian Carter
1279. “When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.” – Katherine Mansfield
1280. “The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.” – Albert Schweitzer
1281. “Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.” – Elbert Hubbard
1282. “Love truth, but pardon error.” – Voltaire
1283. “We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.” – William Ernest Hocking
1284. “Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.” – Rose Kennedy
1285. “A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.” – Grace Murray Hopper
1286. “There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.” – Richard Nelson
1287. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” – Ruth Gordon
1288. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.” – Arnold Glasgow
1289. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao-Tzu
1290. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison
1291. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
1292. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir
1293. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
1294. “It is vital that people ‘count their blessings’ to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.” – Abraham Maslow
1295. “Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” – From Baltasar Gracin y Morales
1296. “Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow.” – Unknown
1297. “Security is a superstition – it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.” – Helen Keller
1298. “Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.” – William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
1299. “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” – E. E. Cummings
1300. “Don't cross the stream to look for water.” – Swedish Proverb
1301. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Sir Winston Churchill
1302. “Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie Wonder
1303. “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
1304. “We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.” – Sydney Smith
1305. “Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.” – Dag Hammarskjold
1306. “When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” – Chinese Proverb
1307. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mohandas Gandhi
1308. “It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day.” – Willie Mays
1309. “Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.” – T.S. Eliot
1310. “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1311. “It's never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot
1312. “Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.” – Unknown
1313. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein
1314. “Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.” – Tim McCarver
1315. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
1316. “There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.” – Elie Wiesel
1317. “We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.” – Luciano Decrescenzo
1318. “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.” – Margaret Cho
1319. “Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.” – Erica Jong
1320. “Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman
1321. “Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.” – Basil Maturin
1322. “Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” – Nichiren Daishonin
1323. “He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.” – Proverbs 15:15
1324. “Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.” – Walter Savage Landor
1325. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner
1326. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
1327. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
1328. “God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.” –Aughey
1329. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
1330. “Mile by mile it's a trial; yard by yard it's hard; but inch by inch it's a cinch.” – Anonymous
1331. “I learn by going where I have to go.” – Theodore Roethke
1332. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” – The Hausa of Nigeria
1333. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Sally Berger
1334. “I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.” – Julia Cameron
1335. “I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.” – Armando “Chick” Corea
1336. “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
1337. “The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.” – Bruce Springsteen
1338. “Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.” – William James
1339. “Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing
1340. “Give and it will be