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I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes I collected and add them to your collection, either in your bullet journal, your planner or your pocket for some extra motivation!

Charles Bukowski

• “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”
• “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.”
• “To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
• “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
• “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

Mark Twain

• “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
• “Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”
• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
• “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
• “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

George Bernard Shaw

• “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
• “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
• “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
• “Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” 
• “Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”
• “If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.”
• “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
• “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
• “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
• “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

Charles Dickens

• “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
• “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
• “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”

Anton Chekhov

• “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
• “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”

Robert Frost

• “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
• “The best way out is always through.”
• “Freedom lies in being bold.”
• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
• “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
• “Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.”

Virginia Woolf

• “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
• “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
• “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Maya Angelou

• “Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.”
• “Nothing will work unless you do.”
• “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
• “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
• “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
• “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
• “Not all those who wander are lost.”

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