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" Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. "

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" Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. "

" Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. "

Mstislav Rostropovich

" Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. "

" The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. "

Johannes Kepler

" No crime is so great as daring to excel. "

Winston Churchill

" Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. "

" Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. "

" The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. "

" He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. "

" There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. "

" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal... the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word 'I.' That Mustafa Kemal is not I - it is 'We.' That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

" Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. "

" It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. "

" I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world. "

" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "

" Great things are done when men and mountains meet. "

" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

Mike Krzyzewski

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. "

" In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. "

" We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. "

Lorraine Toussaint

" Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them. "

" Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. "

George William Russell

" I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. "

" Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. "

" I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. "

Douglas MacArthur

" I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. "

Elizabeth Gilbert