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Great Quotes Prompts For Writiing
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“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” – Charles Dickens
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” -Robert Browning
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“Breed is stronger than pasture.” -George Eliot
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“The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.” -Ken Langone, founder, Home Depot
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” -James Dean
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“Have you invested as much this year in your career as in your car?” -Molly Sargent
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“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.” -James Yorke
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” -Lao-tzu
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“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution ; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” – Willa Foster
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” -General Eric Shinseki
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“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” -Steve Jobs
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“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.” -Isabel Allende
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“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - -Michelangelo
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“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” -Rutherford D. Rogers
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“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb
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“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
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“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“All books are either dreams or swords.” - Amy Lowell
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus
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“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.” -Dave Barry
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“Not all those who wander are lost.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
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“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.” -William Drummond
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“Hatred is too great a burden to bear.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot
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“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“One of the main causes of failure is giving up what you want most for what you want now.” -Jesse Ahroni
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
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“We all have our time machines. Some take us back; they’re called memories. Some take us forward; they’re called dreams.” – Jeremy Irons
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“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“Write from abundance.” -Donald Murray
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“Money often costs too much.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Prose is architecture not interior decoration.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” -Barbara Kingsolver
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“Midway on our life's journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost.” -Dante
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“Knowledge is its own reward ; ignorance is its own punishment.” -Sandra Effinger
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“Doneness counts.” -Sandra Effinger
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