Penny of Quotes

Motivational quotes daily. If you have any questions, just DM me Follow @pennyofquotes on Instagram for more!

[inspiringsuccess]

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

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Mark Caine

Don’t let your current situation stop you from achieving your dreams 

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[boylikelinus]

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

[profound-expressions]

“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…”

John Geddes

[gnngoodquotes]

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

— Chinese Proverb

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“Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people’s will to do wrong in the name of right.”

— Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy #1)

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Jack Kerouac / The Dharma Bums

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[books-n-quotes]

“Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”

— Philip Roth, The Human Stain (via books-n-quotes)

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[books-n-quotes]

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[books-n-quotes]

“It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

— Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

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“If you can’t believe in yourself, listen to the people who do.” - Ernest Hammel