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As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
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Stanislas Wawrinka
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Losing
Positive
Quote #73411
Steve Maraboli
I’m just being me… Success is more than just a wish or desire
Author:
Unknown
Quote #278596
Food
Simple Pleasur…
A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.
Author:
George R.R. Martin
Quote #27546
Happiness
Expectation S
The secret to happiness is low expectations.
Author:
Barry Schwartz
Quote #356407
Criticism
Taking A Stand
Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered posi
Author:
Allan Dare Pearce
Quote #163336
Jealousy
Writing
He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- exc
Author:
Bret Easton Ellis
Quote #306771
Love
Romance
I’m saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I’m asking if you’ll
Author:
Lacey Weatherford
Quote #166300
Psychology
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet n
Author:
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Quote #370606
Faith
Materialism
A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not
Author:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Quote #92212
Pray
Christianity
To pray is to make petition.
Author:
Unknown
Quote #28722
Dreams
Happiness
You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present
Author:
Mao Dun
Quote #257713
Hell
Billy Graham
Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality
Author:
Billy Graham
Quote #155412
Life
Wisdom Quotes
Hard talk punch thought. Hard talk penetrate the heart. A hard talk opens jaws. Hard talk make us po
Author:
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quote #268899
Culture
Legacy
Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates pro
Author:
Richard Brookhiser
Quote #491995
Work
Good
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good educ
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
Quote #364420
Rain
Snow
Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of d
Author:
Bill Watterson
Quote #393735
Envy
Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.
Author:
Jeff Wheeler
Quote #188123
Waiting
Learning
Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you’re waiting for for
Author:
A.J. Darkholme
Quote #468965
Universe
Church
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s
Author:
Alan Watts
Quote #417890
Right
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of
Author:
Agnes Whistling Elk
Quote #135203
Love
Real Love
He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not h
Author:
Aimee Carter
Quote #230072
Empowerment
Past
Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.
Author:
Steve Maraboli
Quote #184695
Prayer
Protection
Lady of the silver moonEnchantress of the nightProtect me and mine within this circle fairly cast.Ea
Author:
Madelyn Alt
Quote #213124
Inspirational
Philosophy
Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions.
Author:
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Quote #116196
Pain
Stuck
My heart shattered. 'The boy that you keep painting - the one at the warehouse and at the art galler
Author:
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Quote #71144
Life
Purpose
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave pu
Author:
Kami Garcia
Quote #455175
Life
Live
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live
Author:
Morrissey
Quote #197074
Death
Grief
I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out aga
Author:
W.G. Sebald
Quote #400769
Inspirational
Diversity
The world is rational and creative. It's a wonderful mystery for our minds to discover and celebrate
Author:
Adam Williams
Quote #175561
Writing
Creativity
Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.
Author:
Michelle C. Hillstrom
Quote #503216
Gender
Violence
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that
Author:
Judith Butler
Quote #352167
Death
Dying
The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.
Author:
Matthew Culberson
Quote #190545
Light
Self
A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.
Author:
Terry Tempest Williams
Quote #416668
Prayer
Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.
Author:
A. B. Simpson
Quote #47821
Inspirational
Knowledge
Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of
Author:
Abhijit Naskar
Quote #245772
Writers
Authors
When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of livel
Author:
Mary Lascelles
Quote #278132
Humor
Food
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourme
Author:
Walter Moers
Quote #202700
Loyalty
Business
As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conduci
Author:
Steve Maraboli
Quote #213179
Kindness
Cruelty
I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Quote #133777
Inspirational
Faith
God hears every cry.
Author:
Unknown
Quote #293761
Humility
Communication
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
Author:
Barbara W. Tuchman
Quote #440109
Give
Human
No human creature can give orders to love.
Author:
George Sand
Quote #475964
Inspiration
Always
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours
Author:
Winston Churchill
Quote #193024
Love
Marriage
You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with.
Author:
Olaotan Fawehinmi
Quote #306406
Romantic
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten tim
Author:
Georgette Heyer
Quote #179739
Religion
Belief
Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And
Author:
Abhijit Naskar
Quote #243204
Romance
Ya
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large d
Author:
Gayle Forman
Quote #188783
Meditation
Mindfulness
Gratitude is both a vaccine and an antidote for grief. Grief may be an inevitable fact of life, but
Author:
Darren Main
Quote #357493
Writing Advice
Graft at your craft!
Author:
Andrew Thomas
Quote #376387
Humor
Harmony
Perfect, just what I need this morning, another episode in battle of the wits.
Author:
Sonya Bria
Quote #270500
God
Emotions
Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the groun
Author:
Augustine of Hippo
Quote #427450
Life
Best
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible.
Author:
Shania Twain
Quote #195619
Life
Death
Loss taught me. It taught me that I won’t have people around me forever. The good I need to do to so
Author:
Nana Awere Damoah
Quote #363616
Authors
Quotes
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the read
Author:
Robert Frost
Quote #498407
Your
You
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Author:
Buddha
Quote #13378
Truth
Humor
Humor is the whole truth.
Author:
Frigyes Karinthy
Quote #75639
Friendship
Trust
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testi
Author:
Immanuel Kant
Quote #373927
Life
Love
Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.
Author:
Sorin Cerin
Quote #290569
Health
Physical Fitne…
We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physic
Author:
Adrian Peter Schmidt
Quote #342530
Delusion
Irony
Wait!" said Erbrechen, suddenly feeling jovial. "I change my mind. Never shite again. Ever. Anywhere
Author:
Michael R. Fletcher
Quote #163543
Fantasy
War
They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the
Author:
George R.R. Martin
Quote #503531
Country
Natural
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with
Author:
Donald Tusk
Quote #134359
Love
Clary Fray
What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you h
Author:
Cassandra Clare
Quote #493877
Political
Independent
Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operati
Author:
Henry Knox
Quote #90656
Beauty
...it's fat women who are really beautiful. The fatter the better.
Author:
Antonio Olinto
Quote #425635
People
Government
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner tha
Author:
Jim Leach
Quote #259053
Life
Fate
Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge
Author:
Wayne W. Dyer
Quote #204370
Dreams
Forest
Within every little dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting to becoming a great forest.
Author:
Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #167700
Strength
Pride
It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do
Author:
Ottilie Weber
Quote #149389
Life
Courage
Until we see the 'this- advantage' in the disadvantage we shall always be looking at the disadvantag
Author:
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quote #33541
Death
Grief
Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will b
Author:
Caitlin Doughty
Quote #188055
Life
Learning
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be s
Author:
Seth Godin
Quote #319497
Teaching
Writing Process
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Author:
Carla H. Krueger
Quote #7606
Humor
Retort
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a woo
Author:
Frank Zappa
Quote #474973
Life
Better
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to ge
Author:
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Quote #468337
Mind
Memory
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t
Author:
W. G. Sebald
Quote #258605
Grace
Jack
I assigned him to help me trim the Brussels sprouts, but instead he kept trying to throw them away w
Author:
Alice Clayton
Quote #324893
Vampire
Dmitri
But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the
Author:
Nalini Singh
Quote #344063
Permission
Danger
The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
Author:
Alain de Botton
Quote #389306
Work
Gandhi
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who
Author:
Indira Gandhi
Quote #56899
Learning
Time
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quote #494296
World
World Peace
If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
Author:
Mona Sutphen
Quote #186807
Wise Words
Inspirational …
The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.
Author:
Unknown
Quote #409424
Habit
Tradition
When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
Author:
George Cabot Lodge
Quote #325257
Inspirational
Life
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said no
Author:
Ray Bradbury
Quote #405601
Education
Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives dire
Author:
Henry S. Canby
Quote #191003
Life
Trust
The more we trust in God, the more mature we become and the more we will begin to enjoy His faithful
Author:
Bamigboye Olurotimi
Quote #89924
Growth
Change
Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left
Author:
Shannon L. Alder
Quote #210076
Lies
Lying
You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!
Author:
Michael Delaware
Quote #323871
Theology
Christian Livi…
I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and
Author:
John Piper
Quote #345847
Love
Funny
My brain fizzles. The 'this is your brain on drugs' warning, should also issue a 'this is your brain
Author:
Ashley Jade
Quote #208390
Memory
Judgement
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
Author:
Unknown
Quote #227040
Action
Success
Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.
Author:
John Patrick Hickey
Quote #180074
Faith
Belief
We're experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but wha
Author:
Akilnathan Logeswaran
Quote #109050
Religion
Humanity
What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in whi
Author:
Steven Pinker
Quote #501352
Growth
Strategy
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagoni
Author:
Barry Commoner
Quote #258809
Fate
Story
I need to tell you a story.'What
Author:
Emma Richler
Quote #57062
Time
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each secon
Author:
Guy de Maupassant
Quote #53483
Relationships
Real Love
Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying t
Author:
Sharon Salzberg
Quote #486582
Fall
Stand
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Author:
Jeff Rich