Quotes on Passion and Enthusiasm
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“What we love to do we find time to do.” |
-John L. Spalding |
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"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.” |
-Brian Tracy |
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“Each time anyone comes into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God’s love. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved. Love does not measure. . . it just gives.” |
-Mother Teresa |
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"It's only when
we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that
we have no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live
each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." |
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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"Time is not measured by the passing of the years, but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves." |
-Jawaharlal Nehru |
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"You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream." |
-Oprah Winfrey |
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"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." |
-Leo Buscaglia |
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." |
-Dag Hammarskjold |
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"Teaching is not a profession; it is a passion. Without passion for your subject and a desire for your students to learn and be the best in the world, we have failed as teachers, and failure is not an option." |
-John Podojil |
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"You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it." |
-Charles Buxton |
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" A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. |
-Bob Dylan |
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." |
-Dale Carnegie |
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"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." |
-Chinese Proverb |
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." |
-Dr. Suess |
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"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But a today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." |
-Unknown |
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"The ones you remember most are those who inspire you. You might not always remember their faces, but you'll always remember their words." |
-Danielle Fitzpatrick |
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." |
-Albert Schweitzer |
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"No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams." |
-Unknown |
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"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." |
-Tony Dorsett |
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"I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose." |
-Woodrow Wilson |
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"Life's
challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; |
-Bernice Johnson Reagon |
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"Always behave like a duck-keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath." |
- Lord Barbizon |
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." |
- by Anatole |
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"May you live all the days of your life." |
-Jonathan Swift |
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"Our lives begin to end the day we start becoming silent about things that matter." |
-Unknown |
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"...when you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, then you have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life." |
-Stedman Graham |
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"Will you remember today, ten years from now? Maybe, maybe not. Just imagine, though, how full your life could be if only you would attempt to make each day a memorable one." |
- Ralph Marston |
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"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows." |
- Alexandra Stoddard |
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"The stories of past courage can offer hope and provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul." |
- John F. Kennedy |
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"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way." |
- Yogi Desai |
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." |
- Anonymous |
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"If we love what we do, love the people with whom we do it, and love the reason for doing it, would we still call it work ?" |
- Lance Secretan |
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"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." |
- Harold V. Melchert |
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"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am 75 and yet not ever truly have lived." |
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." |
- William Morrow |
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"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." |
- Malcolm Forbes |
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." |
- Marion Wright Edelman |
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." |
- George Eliot |
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives." |
- Robert South |
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that ? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." |
- Marie Curie |
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"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded." |
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." |
- Lucinda Basset |
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." |
-Mark Twain |
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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 |
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