Words on Marble - A collection of Quotes - page 2

Man is like a pencil in the hand of God. Therefore, why all the wahala. The killings, greed, hatred, corruption, avarice, suspicions etc. The owner of the universe can switch off now and every system will collapse. 

Man! rethink and digest the fact that we are just on a space trip. Try to appreciate your Creator!!

Benjamin Uyanwune, Swimming Pool Maker
~Amikwo Awka, Nigeria.

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"Men are so worried that marriage will leave them with “only one woman” for the rest of their lives. That’s simply not true. I fell in love with a 19-year-old rock climber, married a 20-year-old animal lover, started a family with a 24-year-old mother, then built a farm with a 25-year-old homemaker, and today I’m married to a 27-year-old woman of wisdom. If your mind is healthy, you’ll never get tired of “one woman”. You’ll actually become overwhelmed with how many beautiful versions of her you get to marry over the years. Don’t say no to marriage, say yes and keep saying yes until the day you die."

Dale Partridge

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"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
John Irving
Academy Award Winning Screenwriter and Novelist
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor and Philosopher
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"We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life."
Lisa Hammond
Author of Dream Big 
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"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do."
Kathleen Winsor
1919-2003, Author
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"The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work. It is called massive action. Action is the gas in the tank. Without you, the car will not run."
Marcy Blochowiak
CEO Marketing Director with World Financial Group
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"Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly, then everybody else seems to be friendly too."
Dr. David Hawkins
Physician and Lecturer

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"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
George Patton
1885-1945, World War II Army General
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"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
Cecil B. DeMille
1881-1959, Film Director and Producer
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Buck
1892-1973, Winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for her writing.
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer
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"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."
Wayne Dyer
Author and Speaker
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington
1732-1802, First American First Lady
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"Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams."
Cheryl Richardson
Author
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"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004, 40th President of the United States
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"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor and Composer
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the United States
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"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it. I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning."
Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Nationalist Leader
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Thomas H. Huxley
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"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference."
Ellen Goodman
Journalist
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"Beware of the thoughts you keep, because everything in reality manifests from the mind."
Justin Palmer
Second Year College Student
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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Theologian
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"When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow."
William 'Biddy' Allen
1903-2001, Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
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"Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they are going, while those without goals do not."
Ted Karam
Author, from his new book Jumping On Water: Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
David J. Schwartz
Trainer and Author
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"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."
Charles Swindoll
Pastor and Author
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"It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."
Jenny Craig
Diet Specialist
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"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Author and Philosopher
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"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"
Mary Manin Morrissey
(Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference )1825-1895, Biologist
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"This is the reason why the Past has such a magical power. The beauty of its motionless and silent pictures is like the enchanted purity of late autumn, when the leaves, though one breath would make them fall, still glow against the sky in golden glory.
The Past does not change or strive.... what was eager and grasping, what was petty and transitory, has faded away, the things that were beautiful and eternal shine out of it like stars in the night. Its beauty, to a soul not worthy of it, is unendurable; but to a soul which has conquered Fate it is the key of religion.’’

England’s 20th Century Philosopher, Counsel to the Beatles, Betram Russell, A Free Man’s Worship. 

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"Everywhere man blames nature and fate. Yet his fate is mostly but the echos of his character and his passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses’’

Greek Philosopher Democritus.

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"You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
Lydia M. Child
802-1880, Abolitionist and Writer

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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Psychiatrist

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"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

Tina Turner
Entertainer

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"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything."

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the United States

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882) English Scientist

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“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self“

Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) English Novelist

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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman
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"See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea."

Guy Finley
Author of The Secret of Letting Go
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"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."

Beatrix Potter
1866-1943, Author and Illustrator
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"If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it."

Roger Babson
1875-1967, Statistician and Columnist
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"Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply it. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So - if you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of shit."

Armanda Delgado
Peace keeper
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"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."

David Copperfield
Magician

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"Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!"

William H. Danforth
Founder of Ralston Purina

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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author and Publicist

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"Happiness depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor

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"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it."

Jesse Owens
1913-1980, Gold Medal Olympic Track Athlete

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"Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!"

William H. Danforth
Founder of Ralston Purina

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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, Former British Prime Minister

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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

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"It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant."

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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"Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though, they add up."

Edward S. Finkelstein
Author

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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Denis Waitley
Speaker and Author
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, Biologist

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"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference."

Ellen Goodman
Journalist

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"Beware of the thoughts you keep, because everything in reality manifests from the mind."

Justin Palmer
Second Year College Student

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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Theologian

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"When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow."

William 'Biddy' Allen
1903-2001, Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

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"Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they are going, while those without goals do not."

Ted Karam
Author, from his new book Jumping On Water: Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

David J. Schwartz
Trainer and Author

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"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."

Charles Swindoll
Pastor and Author

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"It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

Jenny Craig
Diet Specialist

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"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Author and Philosopher

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"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

Mary Manin Morrissey
(Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference )

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