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Inspiring Quotes - Page 46

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

"Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.147, Beacon Press

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech in Washington, D.C., kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 31, 1968.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.400, Northwestern University Press

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

"A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.