Here are some quotes for you. Yes you!

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Published: Sep 8, 2015

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"Weak people avenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore."

"You were given this life because you're strong enough to live it."

"Isn't it sad when you get hurt so much, you can finally say 'I'm used to it'?"

"When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics."

"They tell you to be yourself, then they judge you..."

"I'll be OK. Is that what you want me to say?"

"Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them."

"Be brave, even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference."

"It takes bravery to recognize and admit you are your own poison. It takes courage to do something about it."

"Don't blame others before blaming yourself first."

"The brave do not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."

“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.” - Nelson Mandela

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” - Nelson Mandela

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela

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"We become what we think about" - Earl Nightingale

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." - English Proverb

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite." - Robert Half

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand at rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases." - Jeremy Collier

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." - Thomas Jefferson

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings." - Ann Landers

"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Conficius

"Winning isn't everything, but wanted to win is." - Vince Lombardi

"In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." - Roger Staubach

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'"