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What are inspirational quotations?

To me, an inspirational quote or thought is one that serves three purposes.

First, it must make me look at something, an idea or concept, in a whole new way.

Second, it helps me think more positively about myself, my life and the world ingeneral.

Last, it must challenge me to do better and not settle for good enough.These quotes are from some of the most inspirational people I heard or read, and I wantedto gather them in one place.

Some of these people are famous and I'm sure you have heard of them, Tony Robbins,Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and so on.

But other inspirational quotes come from people you may never have heard of before andthey can be a gateway into a whole new world.

These quotes address issues such as family, relationships, money, success and failure, andthe list goes on.

Quotes on success, Do you wonder why success always seems easy for others, butimpossible for you? These quotes may open your eyes.

Quotes on family, these inspirational quotations put things in perspective when it comesto dealing with family.

Quotes on love, are you lucky in love? These quotes might help you focus on why or whynot.

Quotes on money, do you use money - or does money use you? Find out the difference.

Quotes to keep you going, no matter how hard we try, some days are just brutal.

These inspirational quotations help you maintain your balance.Here are links to pages that contain my favorite inspirational quotes. These quotes canoften help me look at the world in a different way ... particularly when I am facingchallenging situations.

I have placed these quotes in categories, obviously of course some of these quotable quotescan belong in more than one category! Have fun and feel free to forward to me anyinspirational thoughts or sayings that have inspired you as you have overcome challengesand adversity.

Business Quotes

44 Quotes by Business Leaders, Famous Thought Leaders, Politicians, Antiquities andMiscellaneous.
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Mark Twain Quotes69 Quotes by Mark Twain on Life, Courage, Habits, Ambition, Confidence, and lots more.Also you will find 16 pieces of Trivia about Mark Twain.

Tony Robbins Quotes

94 Quotes by Tony Robbins on Success, Passion, Goals, Living Your Ideal Life, Achievement,

Failures, Challenges, Communication, Beliefs, Commitment, Persistence Action,Relationships. Also you will find 15 pieces of Trivia about Tony Robbins.

Albert Einstein Quotes105 Quotes by Albert Einstein on Knowledge, Education,Freedom and lots more.Also you willfind 16 pieces of Trivia about Albert Einstein.

Oscar Wilde Quotes168 Quotes by Oscar Wilde on Love, Humorous, and Inspirational. Also you will find 23Pieces of Trivia about Oscar Wilde

Inspirational Life Quotes

Over 200 Inspirational Life Quotes

Inspirational Love QuotesOver 200 Inspirational Love Quotes

Inspirational Encouragement QuotesOver 130 Inspirational Encouragement Quotes

Sweet Love QuotesOver 128 Sweet Love Quotes

Overcoming Hardship Quotes

Overcoming Hardship Quotes To Inspire You

Overcoming Challenge QuotesOver 90 Overcoming Challenge Quotes To Help You Move Forward

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Business Quotes from Business Leaders

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.Bill BernbachYou are more likely to overcome challenges if you have learned in advance, what to expectand how to respond. That is why training, at all levels, is critical to the success of anyorganization.Allen Sheppard
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.J. B. Priestly

The way that management treats the associates (salespeople) is exactly how the associateswill treat the customers.Sam Walton

Leaders will be those who empower others... Empowering leadership means bringing out theenergy and capabilities people have and getting them to work together in a way theywouldn't do otherwise.Bill Gates

Business Quotes from Famous ThoughtLeaders

Yesterday everyone was a competitor. Today everyone is a customer.Denis WaitleyThe companies which sustain monopolistic market shares do so, paradoxically, by acting ifthey were beset by formidable competitors on every side.Robert Heller

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of thesociety to produce.John Kenneth Galbraith

When creativity is regarded as a magic gift, there is nothing that can be done about it if youare lucky enough to have the gift. But everyone can develop some skill is lateral thinkingand those who develop most skill be the most creative.Edward De Bono

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whetherthe ladder is leaning against the right wall.Stephen R. Covey

Sometimes the most effective motivation is just to say 'Thank you'.2ig 2iglar

There is always a best way of doing everything, even if it be to boil an egg.Ralph Waldo Emerson


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It is easy to lose ourselves in efficiency, to treat that efficiency as an end in itself and not ameans to other ends.Charles Handy

If you get run off the road, you get right up and start over again.Michael J. Coles

There is practically no area of business where the difference between Rhetorical andactuality is greater than in the handling of people.John Harvey-Jones

Don't ever make the mistake of thinking of buildings, computers, consultants, or evenemployees as your company's greatest assets. Every company's greatest assets are itscustomers, because without customers this is no company. It's that simple.Michael LeBoeuf

Today's workers understand the principle that the only true job security comes fromsatisfied customers.

Noel. M. Tichy

Hindrances stimulate the man of purpose ... Mistakes, losses; pains do not subdue him...For he is ever conscious of the certainty of final achievement.James Allen

If you do not experience dark clouds, rain and storms, there is no way of measuringsunshine.James Hardy

Persistence is certainly right up there, among the basic sales commandments, with knowyour product and 'believe in your product'.

Mark H. McCormack

Remember that any buzzword, no matter how clever or attractive, must eventually runthrough that unpredictable filter known as people. A management concept is meaninglesswithout a shrewd understanding of people.Mark H. McCormack

If you have to boil down your negotiating attitude to two things, you can do a lot worsethan question everything and think big.Mark H. McCormack

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Alex F. Osborn

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspiresothers to build it.Jan Calzon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis Bacon


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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.Albert Einstein

The more attention you give to determining priorities and learning the decision makingprocess, the more likely you are to recognize chances when they occur and have theconfidence to take them.

Eileen Gellibrand and Jenny Mosley

Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur

Problems teach us fortitude and, when the pendulum swings upwards again, the joy andelation are all the keener.Mickey Rooney

Business Quotes from PoliticiansHe may well win the race that runs by himself.Benjamin Franklin

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.John F KennedyAfter climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb...I dare notlinger, for my long walk is not yet ended.Nelson Mandela

(I suppose) at one time leadership meant muscles, but today it means getting along withpeople.Indira Gandhi

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.John F. Kennedy

To a mere man, and a career man at that, there is nothing so revivifying as the bewitchingappearance of opportunity.John Major

When you are faced with an impasse you have to crash through or you've got to crash. And

I crashed through in a few impasses in the past.Gough Whitlam

Business Quotes from the Antiquities

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.OVID (Publius Ovidius Naso)


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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentlemen ofleisure.Torstein Veblen

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.Publilius Syrus

To do two things at once is to do neither.Publilius Syrus

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed on a stardoes not change his mind.Leonardo Da Vinci

Business Quotes from Unknown Sources

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but youcannot fool all the people all of the time.UnknownCheat me in price, but not in the goods I buy.Spanish proverb

Life Quotes by Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfyingthan that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that asa natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute allyour talents to the world.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look toeradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experiencemoments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in


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the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice thefeeling and manage being courageous.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain was born Samuel Longhorne Clemens on the November 30, 1835 in Florida, Mo,and died April 21, 1910

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceasedto live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives.Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why weare here.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses inconversation.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs astep at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace

them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live withawareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain, was just one of his pseudonyms, others were Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass,Rambler, Sergeant Fathom and W. Epaminodas Adrastus Blab

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnightsuccess is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful personhow they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.


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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, butthe really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking tobring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out withfriends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, bethat kind of a friend for your friends.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain decided to be a steam boat pilot so in 1857 at age 22 he studied the MississippiRiver for 2 years and then received his license in 1859, he continued to pilot the steamboats until the Civil War broke out in 1861.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course ofhours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change andexternal circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilantafter declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set upstructures that support you staying on target.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.You cannotdepend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer,when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes toknow with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing thatkeeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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He married Olivia Langdon and had 4 children Langdon Clemens, Susy Clemens, ClaraClemens, Jean Clemens

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "alreadyknow for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for thethings you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personalbelief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or

evidence to the contrary.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It washere first.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, thanto be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene,to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived byothers. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

The inspiration for his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a town called Hannibal,Mo.

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't findanybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended endresult that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal

themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want toachieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not

clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.


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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escapehanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish aparticular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create orseek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open itand remove all doubt.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain came up with this name because it means two fathoms deep on the Mississippiand was called out on the steamboat to indicate the boat was in sufficiently deep water.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stopthere; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hotstove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

There is no failure, there are no accidents, and there are no mistakes. They are all learningexperiences and stepping-stones. How many times does a baby fall over in the transitionfrom crawling to walking? Do they give up on ever being able to walk simply because of a

few tumbles?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage sorare.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't readthem. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for themajority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean fromresourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all.It is easierto stay out than get out.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying isnot an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take moreactions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a hugeaction, any action in the direction you want to go will do.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

He had 3 inventions patented, a history game meant for improving the memory, an


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automatically self adjusting vest strap, and a self pasting scrapbook and this is the onlyinvention that made him any money.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around.When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track youmay see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up theview, and providing incorrect insight.Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

When he was a teenager he worked as an apprentice printer.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like,and do what you'd rather not.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.


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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot readthem.

Trivia by Mark Twain quotesMark Twain published more than 30 books throughout his career.

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washingtoncould not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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Twain was very interested in parapsychology, he foresaw his brother Henry's death in avivid and detailed dream (which came to pass) and even predicted the timing of his owndeath with some accuracy.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on


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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, anddo what you'd rather not.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Haley's Comet was visible in the sky on the night that Mark Twain was both born andpassed away.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last halfconsists of the chance without the capacity.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many

things that ain'tTrivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain loved cats so much so that he even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keephim company.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire,Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned

home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but itwould deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases

even your best friends.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a naturethat it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.


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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application,and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the oddsare too heavy.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain received a Doctorate in Letters from Oxford University in 1907.

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give youan opportunity to commit more.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't readthem.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain was vice president of the American Anti-Imperialist League,from 1901 until hisdeath in 1910,.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybodywill side with you when you are in the right.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.


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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't readthem.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove alldoubt.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

During the Civil War, Mark Twain formed a Confederate militia known as the "MarionRangers." The militia disbanded after approximately two weeks.

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Trivia by Mark Twain quotes

As a riverboat pilot, Mark Twain earned from $150 to $250 a month.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Tony Robbins Quotes On Success


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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom youwant, as much as you want.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain andpleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as aresult, they get better answers.

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Tony Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavorick on the 29th February 1960 in NorthHollywood California.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result ofexperience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and takingconsistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioraland belief changes in order to take the necessary action to produce the results. It's beensaid that successful people do what others won't, and that if you believe you can or youbelieve you can't, you're right. Both of those statements are true.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copywhat they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up ... persisting ... eloquentlyexpressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce anew momentum toward success in your life?


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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasureand very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lotmore pleasure than they do pain.


He grew up in a town called Azusa and attended Glendora High School.

You always succeed in producing a result.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Tony Robbins Quotes Passion and Goals

Live with passion!

Passion is the genesis of genius. People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - thatis, goals that do not inspire them.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal thatI'm looking for, rather than "I Can".

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a toolto concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goalsis to cause ourselves to expand and grow.


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Tonys parents divorced when he was 7 years old, his mother remarry twice more, headopted the surname of Jim Robbins, his first stepfather.

Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who youbecome, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give youthe deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when wefocus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have theawesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon asyou set them you immediately begin to create momentum.


Tonys mother was quoted as saying Tony could never shup up even as a child, and that hedrove my husbands away with his big mouth.

The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those Ilearned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then tonever leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action

toward its attainment.

I've continues to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything andeverything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn ourdreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake upand claim our birthright.


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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, wenever concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding tomaster anything in particular.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.Tony Robbins Quotes on Living Your Ideal Life


It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute, that gives meaning to ourlives.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would alwaysget what I wanted and would never have to worry.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your

standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell themthat absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrotedown all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longertolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasureand very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lotmore pleasure than they do pain. One reason so few of us achieves what we truly want isthat we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble theirway through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.


Tony is 6 feet 7 inches (201cms) tall and has very large hands and feet, in 1994 after aroutine medical check it was revealed he had a tumor in his pituitary gland which wasresponsible for his remarkable growth spurts as a teenager, as it wasn't causing any


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problems he decided not to have it removed.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of thosepeople, who live what they teach, who walk their talk.We are the only beings on the planetwho lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather,its how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and howwe will act in the future.

You see, it's never the environment, it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning weattach to the events, how we interpret them, that shapes who we are today who we'llbecome tomorrow.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body,the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.


Tony Robbins was married to his first wife (Becky) for 15 years, after he divorced Becky hemarried Bonnie Humphrey now known as Sage Robbins.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshapeyour daily experience of life.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enoughto eat a lot.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and yourfriends. Have fun, be crazy, and be weird. Go out and screw u! You're going to anyway, so


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you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes, findthe cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect, just be an excellentexample of being human.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your lifeforever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane,the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book youread or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, andall of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slipinto behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning weattach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'llbecome tomorrow.Tony Robbins Quotes on Achievements andFailure and Challenges

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration was actually laying thefoundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most peopleoverestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achievein a decade!

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.You always succeed in producing aresult.

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.


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Because the challenges will continue to show up in life, but if you have the inner strength -whether that be your faith, your determination or your incredible love for self, for God andfor others - then I think you'll have the capacity to live a life that's extremely fulfilled.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Tony Robbins Quotes On Communication

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the qualityof our lives.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Communication works for those who work at it.

You are now at a crossroad. This is your opportunity to make the most important decisionyou will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you reallyare now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided

to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins Quotes on Beliefs,Commitment, Persistence and Action

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function ofour true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

And my personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs youhave about what has to happen before you can be there.


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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have theawesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if beliefs have the powerto create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take anyexperience of their lives and crate a meaning that dis empowered them or one that canliterally save their lives.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewardsare reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until theyachieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent.As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those wholive their dreams from those who live in regret.

Stay committed to your decisions; stay flexible in your approach.Trivia By Tony Robbins Quotes

Tony Robbins is a peak performance coach rather than a motivational speaker, he doesmore than providing temporary motivation.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

There's always a way - if you're committed.

There's no abiding success without commitment.


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How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?


Tony is a self help writer and professional speaker who has been active for over 30 years.

Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if,1. You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving2. You're willing to take massive action3. You notice what's working or not4. You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using

whatever life gives you along the way



Tony acted in the movie Shallow Hal where Jack Blacks character calls him banana hands.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.


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Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there'sno action, you haven't truly decided.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.


In February 2009 the NBC announced that they picked up eight episodes of a new realityseries called Breakthrough With Tony which will star Tony.

I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" Iknow I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in mylife. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided tochange virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that Ican be.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determineswho you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean toyou, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.


He is the founder of the Anthony Robbins Foundation whose mission is to empowerstudents,help prisoners to improve their lives and he also organizes food drives and fundsthe Robbins Discovery Camp.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, here is an opportunity for you tocelebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whateveris necessary.


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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change anyand every part of your life in an instant.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.


His best selling self help books are Unlimited Power, The New Science Of PersonalAchievement and Awaken The Giant Within.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action,you haven't truly decided.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Trivia By Tony Robbins QuotesAt Tonys seminars he uses fire walking as a metaphor for overcoming fears and limitingbeliefs.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate ornot.


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Passion is the genesis of genius.


He was married to Becky when he was 17 and she was older, he had 4 stepchildren 3 boysand a girl, his daughter is a actress.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain orpleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we willinstantly change our behaviors.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that

determine our destiny.

Tony Robbins quotes on Relationships

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work towardsolutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown,and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they'realready experiencing.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter arelationship in order to get something, they are trying to find someone who is going to


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make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see yourrelationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

There is always a way-if you're committed.

There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimateecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate fulfillment.


Tony Robbins is a vegetarian.

Trivia by Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einsteins was born to Pauline Koch and Hermann Einstein,on March 14, 1879 inGermany in a town called Ulm. His father was an optimistic, who married Pauline in 1876.Albert also had a younger sister named Maja.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch ofgenius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.


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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss theattention it deserves.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of

thinking.


According to one of Albert Einsteins wife, he couldn't hang onto an umbrella, was constantlylosing them plus things. The smallest things he would forget.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large oneseither.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as theyare certain, they do not refer to reality.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Trivia by Albert Einstein QuotesAlbert Einstein was a genius, but up until his ninth birthday could not speak fluently.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.


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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technicalendeavours. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.


One of Albert Einsteins greatest discoveries "Compound interest was not only man'sgreatest invention, but it was also the most powerful force on Earth!" Those are compellingwords coming from one of the most intelligent men of our time!"

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannotnecessarily be counted.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.


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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from theprejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming suchopinions.


Albert Einstein didn't like games or sport but loved mechanical toys his favorite being amagnetic compass his father had given him showing him no matter how he turned it theneedle always stayed in the same direction.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

God always takes the simplest way.

God does not play dice.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.


Albert Einstein died April 18 1955 he was 76 years old, he was cremated, his brain wassaved, Dr Thomas S Harvey removed his brain on the morning of his death.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyesare closed.


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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He hasbeen given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by thename of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Trivia by Albert Einstein QuotesAlbert Einstein had a huge problem with the spelling the English words so was never able towrite English but he could speak both English and German.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing willend war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for thebody and the mind.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but areflection of human frailty.


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He was always forgetting birthdays of people close to him as he couldn't remember dates oreven phone numbers. He couldn't even remember his own, and his way of thinking was whyshould I, as I wouldn't be calling myself.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusivelyhuman concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.


Albert Einstein graduated from Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich in 1900 with adegree in physics, he worked his day job and at night would work on his own research.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be foughtwith sticks and stones.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.


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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. Thehundredth time I am right.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.


He regarded all marriages as dangerous so he had a problem with monogamy. Hisreputation with other woman other than his wife was well documented

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are asorry lot indeed.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.


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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.


Albert Einstein disliked science fiction, he avoided it and encouraged others to do the same

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, forissues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheeponeself.

Information is not knowledge.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.


Albert Einstein was a genius,but could still relate to minds less advanced than his own, thatis because he was a very simple man.


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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popularfellow?

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformistwarmly acclaimed.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.


Albert Einstein played the violin, but not well but still played his violin even though it didn'tsound like music.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.


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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it hasovercome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.


Albert Einstein was not very good at school and he couldn't talk until he was 3 years old sohis parents and people thought he was retarded. He studied independently and flourished,in his early teens he taught himself advanced math and science.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stopquestioning.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.


Albert Einstein first went to a Catholic school as he wasn't interested in school he hated it


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and eventually learnt things he wanted to learn at home.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, beexpressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.


Albert Einstein married a former classmate, Mileva Maric in 1903 and they had 2 sons and adaughter. Mileva wanted so much to help Albert with his work buy wasn't able tounderstand it, so he never bothered to explain it to her.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it ischaracter.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who revealshimself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.


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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove mewrong.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein Quotes on Knowledge,Education, and Freedom

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks tome like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completelydependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hearanything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by thethoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry andmonotonous.

There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste

within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most preciouspossessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writers of antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) thatthe people in the Middle Ages could slowly extricate themselves from the superstitions andignorance that had darkened life for more than half a millennium. Nothing is more neededto overcome the modernist's snobbishness. -Albert Einstein, 1954.The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for thesound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. - Albert Einstein, 1952


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Knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. Itresembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened withburial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that themarble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

-Albert Einstein, 1950.

When, after several hours reading, I came to myself again, I asked myself what it was thathad so fascinated me. The answer is simple. The results were not presented as ready-made,but scientific curiosity was first aroused by presenting contrasting possibilities of conceivingmatter. Only then the attempt was made to clarify the issue by thorough argument. Theintellectual honesty of the author makes us share the inner struggle in his mind. It is thiswhich is the mark of the born teacher. Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored inbooks, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all theessential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position. Albert

Einstein, 1954.Albert Einstein Quotes on Education

My dear children: I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny andfortunate land. Bear in mind that the wonderful things that you learn in your schools are thework of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in everycountry of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that youmay receive it, honor it, and add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in

common. If you always keep that in mind you will find meaning in life and work and acquirethe right attitude towards other nations and ages. - Albert Einstein 1934.

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous andlarge are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst fortruth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but herchoice products are few.

We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thusremain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is alsosuch a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particulargeneration, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark toa society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. - AlbertEinstein, 1954.

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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all humanbeings should be produced by the least possible labor of all.

The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable precondition of a satisfactoryexistence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have thepossibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accordswith their personal characteristics and abilities.

The first of these two goals requires the promotion of all knowledge relating to the laws ofnature and the laws of social processes, that is, the promotion of all scientific endeavors.For scientific endeavor is a natural whole, the parts of which mutually support one anotherin a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate. - Albert Einstein, 1940.

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires stillanother kind of freedom, which may be characterized as inward freedom. It is this freedomof spirit which consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarianand social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. Thisinward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy objective for the individual.

Schools may favor such freedom by encouraging independent thought. Only if outward andinner freedom are constantly and consciously pursued is there a possibility of spiritualdevelopment and perfection and thus of improving man's outward and inner life. - AlbertEinstein, 1940.Oscar Wilde Quotes Of Love

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love'stragedies.

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is nounderstanding.


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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is thesame thing nowadays.

Life is one fool thing after another where as love are two fool things after each other.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Trivia by Oscar Wilde Quotes.Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, and writer of numerous short stories, playsand one novel. He became the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era inLondon and was a great celebrity.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What theylike is to be a man's last romance.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to loveher.


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Trivia by Oscar Wilde Quotes.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin on October 16th 1854 and DiedNovember 30th 1900

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth whohave, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weepabout.


Oscar Wilde was the second son of Sir William Wilde Irelands leading ear and eye surgeon,who wrote books on folklore and archaeology. Oscar's mother was Jane Francesca Elgee,Lady Wilde, called Speranza and was an Irish nationalist and writer.

Music makes one feel so romantic at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is thesame thing nowadays.


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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything,even our gigantic intellects.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are

always so occupied with being jealous of other woman's husbands.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.


Oscar was educated at home until he was nine years old. He then went to school at thePortora Royal School.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each others character beforemarriage, which is never advisable.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love'stragedies.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.


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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women whenthey love give everything.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased tolove.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde Quotes Humorous AndInspirational.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read inthe train.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I have made an important discoverythat alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all

the effects of intoxication.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothingthat is worth knowing can be taught.


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In 1855 the family moved and Oscar's sister Isola was born

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends thema fat missionary.

It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friendsthat are hard to bear.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.


He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin from 1871 to 1874; here he won the BerkeleyGold Medal which was one of the highest awards for students of the classics.

Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.


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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worstsandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do notmean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.


After Trinity College he then at Oxford and was one of the most successful and fashionablewriters of the nineteenth century, preaching the importance of style and broad-mindedness.

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me. I always feel that I must bewrong.

Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always beenhushed up.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.


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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.


After Oxford he went to Magdalen College and then Oxford for another four years, here hewon the famous Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Artimitates Life.All art is quite useless.It is perfectly monstrous the way people go aboutnowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirelytrue.

I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badlywritten.

Too many, no doubt, he will seem blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him asbeing simply British.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, andthen merely at dinner parties.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society herewould be quite civilized.


When he was at Magdalen College he became involved in the aesthetic and decadentmovements.


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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays.

If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that hesees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.


He started to wear his hair long and scorned "manly sports.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship,love, but no friendship.


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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with theignorance of the community.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Trivia by Oscar Wilde Quotes.He would decorate his room with lilies, peacock feathers, sunflowers and china.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. Alas, I am dying beyond my

means.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.


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Wilde was greatly disliked by some of his fellow students, who threw his china out of hisroom.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than artimitates life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terribletemptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization inbetween.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.


In May 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, a daughter of wealthy Queen's Counsel HoraceLloyd.


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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the sameopinion.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectlysatisfied.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is lookedupon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.


Constance was given an allowance of two hundred and fifty pounds which allowed them tolive quite well.


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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do theyforgive them.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if shewere a perfectly normal human being.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.Everything popular is wrong.


Oscar and Constance had 2 sons Cyril born 1885 and Vyvyan Born 1886

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.


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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfairabout its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, andmy enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explainaway.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Trivia by Oscar Wilde Quotes.In 1895, Oscar Wilde was convicted of"gross indecency(i.e., homosexual acts) and

sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. While there, he wrote his long poemThe Ballad of Reading After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by thenight ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use tooneself.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.


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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better thananything else in the world.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which ahuman being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it issimply a tragedy.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.


Oscar went to Paris under the name of Sebastian Melmoth and died there in poverty ofmeningitis at the age of forty-six.Wilde died at the Htel d'Alsace, in Paris.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.


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Life is too important to be taken seriously.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.


On his deathbed, he was accepted into the Roman Catholic Church.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, itdoesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act inaccordance with the dictates of reason.


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A month before he died, he had commented, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to thedeath. One or other of us has got to go."

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell youthe truth.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both aredisappointed.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I can resist everything except temptation.


After the disgrace Constance took the surname Holland for herself and her 2 sons. She diedfollowing spinal surgery in 1898.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.


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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except agood reputation.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves thefull benefits of their inexperience.

In married life three is company and two none.


Her sons Cyril was killed in World War One and Vyvyan served in the war but later becamean author and translator.In 1954 Vyvyan published his father's memoirs which he called SonOf Oscar Wilde.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the wholeworld kin.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But,it is better to be good than to be ugly.


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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.


Vyvyan son Merlin published several works about his grandfather.Wildes niece Dolly Wildehad a lesbian relationship with writer Natalie Clifford Barney.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the

commercial classes.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.


Memories of his witticisms made him immortal

It is through art and through art only, that we can realize our perfection.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can'thelp it.


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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives amimicry, their passions a quotation

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late thatthe only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

(A) Inspirational Life Quotes

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert SchweitzerEthics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and

natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for andto help all creatures insofar as it is in our power.I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its greatnaturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we muststrive if our culture is to become truly ethical.Albert Schweitzer

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life.This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in


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maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting lifeare evil.Inspirational Life Quotes byAlbert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that goodconsists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder

life is evil.Affirmation of the world, that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenalforms all around me, is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.Albert Schweitzer

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would growin thought and mind.Inspirational Life Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness andrighteousness.Abraham Lincoln

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.A. Powell Davies

Life on the planet is born of woman.Adrienne Rich

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.Alan Bennett

All men have sweetness in their life.

That is what helps them go on.It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.Inspirational Life Quotes byAlbert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.Albert Camus

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.Albert Camus


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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter.I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book.If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.Alice Walker

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.Amelia Burr

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Any idiot can face a crisis - its day to day living that wears you out.Inspirational Life Quotes byAnton Chekhov

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.This is a kind of death.Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action.From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest

form of living.Anais Nin

The most decisive actions of our life, are most often unconsidered actions.Andre Gide

Life is a process.We are a process.The universe is a process.Inspirational Life Quotes byAnne Wilson Schaef

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Love life and life will love you back.Love people and they will love you back.Arthur Rubinstein

I have a simple philosophy:Fill what's empty.Empty what's full.


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Scratch where it itches.Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.Anthony Hopkins

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.Arthur Miller

(B) Inspirational Life Quotes

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when yourrelationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.Barbara De AngelisWars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.Barbara Kingsolver

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of theblood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture butwithin oneself?Barry Lopez

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