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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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2018
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George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856–1950)



It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

George Eliot, English writer (1819–1880)



What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Middlemarch (1871–72)

George Eliot, English writer (1819–1880)



Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Let Us Have Faith (1940)

Helen Keller, American writer and social reformer (1880–1968)



It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville, American writer (1819–1891)



Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Hippocrates, Greek physician (460–370 BC)



He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Epistles (20 BC)

Horace, Roman poet (65–8 BC)



You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan, English writer (1628–1688)



All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

[Inaugural address, 1961]

John F Kennedy, 35th president of the US (1917–1963)



What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

Langston Hughes, American poet (1902–1967)



The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (?–533 BC)



Great fires erupt from tiny sparks.

Libyan proverb



Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901–1978)



We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist (1867–1934)



What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Frankenstein (1823)
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