Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Subject:
Motivational   
Hope & Dreams   
Creativity   
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Success   
Jealousy   
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
Subject:
Money   
Wealth   
Sarcasm   
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Subject:
Character   
Life   
Selfish   
Work: Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Subject:
Friendship   
Courage   
Encouragement   
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Subject:
Success   
Effort   
Work   
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Subject:
Revenge   
Hate   
Coward   
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Subject:
Happiness   
Wealth   
Poverty   
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Subject:
Power   
Fool   
Corrupt   
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I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Subject:
Money   
Wealth   
Morality   
Work: Major Barbara (1907) act 2
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Subject:
Motivational   
Success   
Effort   
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Subject:
Peace   
Grief   
Spiritual   
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Subject:
Success   
Mistakes   
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Subject:
Ability   
Action   
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Past   
Future   
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Subject:
Education   
Life   
Experience   
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Subject:
Life   
Excellence   
Time   
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
Subject:
Crime   
Sports & Competition   
Justice   
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Age   
Youth   
Work: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Subject:
Intellect   
Politicians   
Intelligence   
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