The best Quotes by John Burroughs

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

Courage Risk Motivation

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Dirk Nowitzki

Motivation

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Teachers Failures & Mistakes Motivation

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

Motivation

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

Harry Styles

Dreaming Motivation

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

Harvey Specter in Suits

Self-Confidence Popularity Motivation

Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Motivation Fish

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Knute Rockne

Motivation Weaknesses

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Heart

I can hear you, you can hear me, when we listen with our hearts.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Heart Love Valentine's Day

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Proverbs - 4,23

Heart

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

Will Newman in Five Feet Apart

Positive Quotes

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Johnny Depp

Moments Positive Quotes

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Dreaming Optimism Positive Quotes

You have to work your hardest and stay positive. Then you've got a shot at the silver lining.

Pat in Silver Linings

Positive Quotes

Whatever you are, be a good one!

Abraham Lincoln

Positive Quotes

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J.M. Barrie

Selflessness Positive Quotes Being nice

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Life Failures & Mistakes Beginning Scars

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Failures & Mistakes Self-Confidence

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Failures & Mistakes Ambition Basketball

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Annette Funicello

Life Failures & Mistakes Perfection

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Failures & Mistakes Decisions

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

Character Playing Losing & Defeat

In this world everything is governed by balance. There's what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose. And in this moment they think they have nothing to lose. And when you believe you've got nothing to lose, you're overconfident. We will be the ones that are going to show them just how much they have to lose.

The Professor in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 3

Losing & Defeat Winning

The loser isn't the one who's falling down, it's the one who doesn't stand up.

Courage Losing & Defeat Getting up Falling down

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayrton Senna

Ambition Losing & Defeat

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

Bobby Fischer (World Chess Champion)

Losing & Defeat Excuses Chess

The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Losing & Defeat Frustration

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Giving Up Losing & Defeat

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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