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Quotes on Passion

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"Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change."

Frida Kahlo

"Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work."

"Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface."

"The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humour and style."

“Find yourself and your passion, finding your passion doesn’t mean that you must leave the job you have now. It simply means you need to bring more of yourself into work and focus on the things you do best.” 

"Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do."

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

E. M. Forster

John Quincy Adams Quotes

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John Quincy Adams, the son of second President John Adams. He became the 6th President of the United States and served only for a single term, a brilliant diplomat and the secretary of state, his presidency was marred by bitter partisan politics.

Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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"Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body."

Naguib Mahfouz

"Happy is he who can give himself up."

Naguib Mahfouz

"If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?"

Naguib Mahfouz

"The real malady is fear of life, not of death"

Naguib Mahfouz

"The heart is a place of secrets."

Naguib Mahfouz

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

"I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other."

Naguib Mahfouz

"Madness is the acme of intelligence."

Naguib Mahfouz

Derek Jeter Quotes

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"It doesn't take any talent to play hard."

"Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person."

"My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true."

"I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes."

Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

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"Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career."

Sonia Sotomayor

"We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength."

Sonia Sotomayor

"I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared."

Sonia Sotomayor

"You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society."

Sonia Sotomayor Quotes on Education

"Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped."

Sonia Sotomayor

"If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them."

Sonia Sotomayor

"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."

Sonia Sotomayor

"As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls."

Sonia Sotomayor

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

Sonia Sotomayor

"I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences."

Sonia Sotomayor

"Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing."

Sonia Sotomayor

"You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action."

Sonia Sotomayor

"You can only stay connected if you feel connected."

Sonia Sotomayor

Edward Abbey Quotes

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"I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever."

"A house built on greed cannot long endure."

"Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth."

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."

"There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere."

"Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail."

"A man's duty? To be ready, with rifle or rood, to defend his home when the showdown comes."

"To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question."

"An empty man is full of himself."

"Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful."

"I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars."

"One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word."

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."

"I stand for what I stand on."

"There never was a good war or a bad revolution."

"We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal."

"Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair."

"Beware of the man who has no enemies."

"There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed."

"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?"

"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key."

"Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation." 5

"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Love

"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."

"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy."

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

"There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime"

"Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger."

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Death

Edgar Allan Famous Quotes

"The past is a pebble in my shoe."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."

"False hope is nicer than no hope at all."

"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

"Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge"

"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."

"There is no beauty without some strangeness"

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

60+ Best Selected Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi Quote Education

"True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious."

"Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character."

"An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer"

"Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society."

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"There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

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"Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers."

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"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people."

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"If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present"

Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

"I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price."

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."

"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."

"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

"Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction."

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."

"There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

"People cannot hurt you without your permission."

"There is no path to peace; peace is the path."

"Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace"

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Leadership

"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves."

"When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."

"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves."

"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow"

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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."

Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I wanted to end the world but,I’ll settle for ending yours.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“What one man can invent, another can discover.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It’s every man’s business to see justice done.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

"It’s every man’s business to see justice done."

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