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  Knowledge Quotes - The only true Wisdom   “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard   “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates   “The Seven Social Sins are:   Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.   From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson   “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes   “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein   “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” ― Mark Twain   “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do bet...

  Success Quotes - Sometimes I feel proud of Myself   “Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “The possibility of the dream gives strength.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind   “Sometimes I feel proud of myself, not because of any success I’ve achieved, but because I’m aware of all the difficulties that I have suffered or went through.   I’m an eyewitness at all the fear, weakness, frustration, failure, depression, refraction and bad luck moments that I’ve been through alone and which affected significantly but never was able to beat me for so long.   This is why I’m proud, because I’m here now stronger that yesterday, I'm still able to stand and continue on my way, still following up my dreams, still trying my best to build better futu...

  Success Quotes - Visionary Decision-Making “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.” ― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes   “Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.” ― Paul O'Brien, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence   “While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.” ― Brian Tracy   “Success necessitates sacrifice.” ― Habeeb Akande   “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “Action separates the hero...

  Success Quotes - The Greatest Love Stories   “The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” ― Winston S. Churchill   “Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.” ― Shanno...

  Philosophy Quotes - Don't explain your Philosophy   “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” ― Bertrand Russell   “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus   “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being   “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” ― George Orwell, 1984   “A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the sufferin...

  Philosophy Quotes - Ironic Habit of Human Beings   “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” ― Epictetus   “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room   “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ― Ayn Rand   “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi   “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night   “If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” ― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His O...