Inspirational Sayings

473 sayings found from 473 authors

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error.

— Alexis de Tocqueville c. 1830-1850
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The idea of a well-ordered society is an ideal that we should strive for, even if we can never fully achieve it.

— John Rawls 1993
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

— Ayn Rand 1943
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud 1927
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

— Carl Jung 1963
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The highest possible achievement is to be able to live for the present moment, fully and completely.

— B.F. Skinner Unknown
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

— William James 1895
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The only way to overcome fear is to do what you fear.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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The aim of the law is to make man perfect, and it is impossible for man to be perfect so long as his mind is not perfect.

— Maimonides c. 1190
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If a lion knew his own strength, it were hard for any man to rule him.

— Thomas More c. 1516-1535
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 1995
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

— Erasmus Unknown
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Man is so great that his greatness is known even in his knowing himself to be miserable.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
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I am the closest possible thing to James Bond that exists outside of fantasy.

— Andrew Tate Undated, widely circulated
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

— Edmund Burke 1774
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The sole object of government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest possible number of the community.

— Jeremy Bentham 1830
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The essence of religion is that it is a longing for the impossible.

— Georg Simmel 1911
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The most important thing in life is to have a common purpose.

— Emile Durkheim 1893
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