Quotes about life
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.