Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.

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there are many Africas.

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Success feeds confidence.

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After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is diffe…

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A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path …

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the un…

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If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you ne…

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