Powerful Motivation Quotes From Famous People - PART 2

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By speedbird

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." -- Bradley Miller

"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." -- Harvey MacKay

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code." -- Unknown

"Life is a series of commas, not periods."  -- Matthew McConaughey

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." -- Edward Everett Hale

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." -- Ralph Charell

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them." -- Erma Bombeck

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around." -- Katharine Hepburn

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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." -- Walt Whitman

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."-- Lucille Ball

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain." -- Susan B. Anthony

"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." -- Kay Knudsen

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting."
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." -- Lynn Hall

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -- A. A. Milne

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first
calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." -- Jane Austen

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."  -- Tom Robbins

"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you
to laugh at all of life's realities." -- Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss

"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." -- David Starr Jordan

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." -- Mitch Albom

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
that we embark." -- Barbara Hall

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ImChemist profile image

ImChemist 14 months ago

Thanks for this great hub , I'm waiting part 3 . Rated and voted

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faiza taj 14 months ago

great hub

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speedbird Hub Author 14 months ago

Thanks for your comment ImChemist, I am glad that you found this to be useful

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Terry.Hirneisen 14 months ago

Your quotes provoke thought and I love them. Thank you for the wonderful Hub.

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speedbird Hub Author 14 months ago

Thanks Tierry for your comments, I appreciate!

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Olojo Oluwasegun 14 months ago

Great hub

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speedbird Hub Author 14 months ago

Thanks Olojo for your comments

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mulberry1 Level 1 Commenter 14 months ago

Inspiring comments and video!

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speedbird Hub Author 14 months ago

Once again thanks mulberry1 for your comments

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