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Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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Index_card_top “Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”
 
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592);
Essayist, Author


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Index_card_top “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. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
 
Nelson Mandela (born 1918);
Former President Of South Africa
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Index_card_top “What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
 
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880);
Novelist, Editor
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Index_card_top “Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.”
 
Libbie Fudim -


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Index_card_top “I guess I can’t really change the past since it’s now history and I certainly cannot change tomorrow, for I am not promised it, but I can change the way I live today. This realization in itself is the root of not only who I want to be tomorrow, but who I am working on being today. Never again do I want to fail anything without an attempt; I want push myself to my fullest potential, and if that means that I fall a few times along the way then so be it, but I will no longer allow myself to just give up. I deserve better, and it is time that I start believing that. ”
 
Nadia Kelifa (born 1992);

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Index_card_top “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.”
 
Charles Swindoll (1934-0);
Founder Of Insight For Living
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Index_card_top “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”
 
Wilferd A. Peterson (1900-1995);
Author, Businessman
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Index_card_top “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
 
John R. Wooden (born 1910);
Basketball Coach, Author
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Index_card_top “We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
 
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950);
Poet, Novelist


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Index_card_top “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
 
Robert Brault - Poet
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Index_card_top “There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
 
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996);
Composer; Playwright; Creator Of Broadway Musical Rent


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Index_card_top “Success is nothing more or less than being who you want to be; progressing toward your ideal each day.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “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.”
 
Nelson Mandela (born 1918);
Former President Of South Africa
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Index_card_top “Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
 
Bruce Garrabrandt (born 1955);
Artist, Writer


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Index_card_top “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. ”
 
Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
 
Susan Sarandon (born 1946);
Actress


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“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
 
Helen Keller (1880-1968);
Author, Lecturer, Activist
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Index_card_top “I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.”
 
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978);
Painter, Illustrator


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“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
 
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974);
Aviator


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“I learned that inspiration does not always come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time. ”
 
Brenda Ueland (1891-1985);
Journalist, Editor, Teacher


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 04/07/11
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ”
 
Wendell Berry (born 1934);
Farmer, Writer, Academic


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 06/21/11
“If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ”
 
Rachel Carson (1907-1964);
Marine Biologist And Conservationist


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 07/18/11
“Your spark can become a flame and change everything. ”
 
E.D. Nixon (1899-1987);
American Civil Rights Leader


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/16/11
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
 
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917-1996);
Jazz Vocalist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 03/13/12
“Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. ”
 
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962);
Writer, 1946 Nobel Prize In Literature Recipient


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