Spar & Bernstein's Favorite Quotes

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
- Kahlil Gibran
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“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
- Sandra Day O’Connor
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“We have no choice of what [...]

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
- Victor Hugo

“The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.”
- James Baldwin
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“The United States should be ‘an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.’”
- Thomas Paine
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“Here is not merely a nation, but a [...]

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Be civil to all; sociable to many, familiar with few; friend to one, enemy to none.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
- John [...]

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
- Tony Robbins
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“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“We must be the [...]

“The future depends on what we do in the present.”
- Gandhi
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“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.”
- Edward B. Butler
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“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
- George Eliot
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“Man is what he [...]