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Motivating Voices Make These My Favorite Quotes

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When one talks of favorites, one cannot be objective. The word 'favorite' signifies 'special.' It is a matter of choice. Here is a collection of my favorite quotes -- words of wisdom from impressive personalities. They never fail to motivate me.
  • Benjamin Disraeli
    When I want to read a novel, I write one.

  • Albert Einstein
    Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  • Leo Tolstoy
    Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  • Thomas A. Edison
    There is time for everything.

  • Ovid
    We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  • Warren Buffett
    Value is what you get.

  • Joan Rivers
    Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

  • Mahatma Gandhi
    Be the change you want to see in the world.

  • J. K. Rowling
    Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  • George Bernard Shaw
    We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

  • Shakespeare
    If music be the food of love, play on.

  • Walt Disney
    The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  • Henry Ford
    Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

  • Socrates
    The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

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