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Success
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
Love
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘no matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table’.” – Tom Hanks
Happiness
“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” – Salvador Dali
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” – Walter Savage Landor
“We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” – David C. Hill
Imagination
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.” – Pablo Picasso
Truth
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
Courage
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
Persistence
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” – Herbert Kaufman