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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. – Buddha

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. – Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. – John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Tony Robbins

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.  – Tony Robbins

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. – Zig Ziglar

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. – Barack Obama

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. – Barack Obama

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

Friendship Quotes

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“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman

“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb

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Motivational Michael Jordan Quotes

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– “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
– “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
– “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
michael-jordan– “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
– “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

– “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

– “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

– “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Best Motivational Quotes

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz

Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it. – Brian Vaszily

Some people develop a wishbone where their back bone should be. – Anonymous

Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. – Helen Rowland

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. – Jackson Brown

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. – Yogi Berra

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock. – Henny Youngman

Burn your computer. Blow up your TV. Bludgeon your cell phone. Breathe deeply. This, my friends, is the secret to inner-peace. – Brian Vaszily

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

God is dead – Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. – God

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. – Unknown

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory. – Unknown

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. – Unknown

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. – Charles Schulz

None of us is as dumb as all of us. – Unknown

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. – Alexander Woollcott

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. – Unknown

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William Mauldin

If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me with not only a problem but also a possible solution to that problem, I’d have six dollars. – Brian Vaszily

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. – Unknown

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Dale Carnegie

To do is to be. – Descartes

To be is to do. – Voltaire

Do be do be do. – Frank Sinatra

Cute Love Movies Quotes

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– “Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.” – Dan in Real Life

– “There are only four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made of?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.” – Don Juan Demarco

– “You’re a romantic. You have a lyrical soul. You can love under the best and worst conditions.” – Drew Barymore, Fever Pitch

– “Life is like a box of choclates, you never know what your gonna get.” – Forest Gump

– “When you love someone,
And you love them with your heart,
It never disappears,
When you’re apart.
And when you love someone
And you’ve done all you can do,
You set them free,
And if that love was true…
When you love someone
It will all come back to you.” – Forget Paris

– “A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same.” – Fried Green Tomatoes

– “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting

– “You’re not perfect sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting

– “Love actually is all around us.” – Hugh Grant, Love Actually

– “You make me want to be a better man.” – Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

– “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love; but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love; to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy; therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” – Love and Death

– “When a divorce lawyer gets married it’s the triumph of hope over experience.” – Love is a Four Letter Word

– “Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you’ll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but there’s also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who’s been standing beside you all along.” – Marion St. Claire, Bride Wars

– “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love – well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.” – Meet Joe Black

– “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge

– “Love is a many splendid thing; Love lift us up where we belong; All you need is love.” – Moulin Rouge

– “Your eyes are the sweetest stars I’ve ever seen.” – Moulin Rouge

– “Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you, until the end of time.” – Moulin Rouge

– “We should be lovers, and that’s a fact.” – Moulin Rouge

– “Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place,
suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace,
suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste,
it all revolves around you.” – Moulin Rouge

– “There’s an Italian painter, named Carlotti, and he defined beauty…He said it was the summation of the parts, working together in such a way that nothing needed to be added, taken away, or altered, and thats you, you’re beautiful.” – Nicolas Cage, Next

– “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill

– “I am someone else when I’m with you, someone more like myself.” – Original Sin

– “I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.” – Say Anything

– “Nobody thinks it will work, do they? No. You just described every great success story.” – Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court

– “If the people we love are stolen from us,
The way to have them live on, is to remember them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.” – The Crow

– “In these dreams I’ve loved you so, that by now I think I know what it’s like to be loved by you. I will love being loved by you.” – The King and I

– “Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They’re shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they’re gone.” – The Notebook

– “Love is friendship on fire.” – The Perfect Man

– “Hearts will be practical only when they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz

– “Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless.” – Titanic

– “I dream about being with you forever.” – Twilight

– “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally

– “I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally

– “Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone.” – Wizard of Oz

– “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – Wizard of Oz

Inspirational Quotes by Women

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family. – Peace Pilgrim

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. – Helen Keller

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life. – Peace Pilgrim

Every thought we think is creating our future. – Louise L. Hay

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Positive Friendship Quotes

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– “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle

– “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome

– “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare

– “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne

– “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly

– “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato

– “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle

– “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

– “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown

– “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot

– “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly

– “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner

– “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan

– “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran

– “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli

– “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman

– “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne

– “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard

– “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams

– “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon

– “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh

– “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

– “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper

– “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes

Charile Chaplin Funny Quotes

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sir_charles_chaplins– “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
– “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
– “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– “We think too much and feel too little.”
– “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
– “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
– “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
– “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
– “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”

– “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

– “That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.”

– “In the end, everything is a gag.”

Famous Quotes by Women

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anaïs Nin

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. – Helen Keller

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. – Mother Teresa

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. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anaïs Nin

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January: Serj Tankian Quotes ~ 3929 views

“Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.” – Serj Tankian

February: Joy Quotes ~ 829 views

“Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb

March: Courage Quotes ~1395 views

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

April: Quick Albert Einstein Quote ~ 1426 views

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein

May: Quick Smile Quote ~ 1870 views

“I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy. I’m going to laugh so don’t you see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile!” – Unknown

June: Quick Tupac Quote ~ 2794 views

“My mama always used to tell me: If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.” – Tupac

July: Every time YOU smile, I smile ~ 1098 views

“Every time YOU smile, I smile” – Unknown

August: Famous Quotes About Life ~ 527 views

“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

September: Seeing and Feeling Albert Einstein Quote ~ 5132 views

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein

October: Bob Marley Quotes ~ 2272 views

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley

November: Sweet Things to Say to Your Girlfriend ~ 1658 views

“If every raindrop would be one of your smiles, I wish it rains heavily throughout, so that there is no space for unhappiness in your life” – Unknown

December: Life Quotes ~ 1469 views

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein

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