“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” ~ Goethe
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you cannot get it wrong.” ~ Anonymous
“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” ~ Tom Fleming
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” ~ Anonymous
“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” ~ Steve Jobs
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” ~ Bruce Lee
“People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.” ~ Mahathma Gandhi
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” ~ Robert L. Stevenson
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option left.”
“Be the change you want to see.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.” ~ Ayn Rand
“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.” ~ Voltaire
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~ Truman Capote
“Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.” ~ Anonymous
“Look at the clock when you waste your time, Running in it is not pin of the clock but your life.” ~ Anonymous
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ~ Cicero
“I think of OKRs as transparent vessels that are made from the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of our ambitions. What really matters is the ‘why’ that we pour into those vessels.” ~ John Doerr
10 Valentine Day Quotes
from Gurvinder (2026) - https://substack.com/@gurwinder/note/c-214435124
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” — Jules Renard
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“We have to be wholly at peace with the prospect of many years of solitude in order to be appropriately picky; otherwise, we risk loving no longer being single more than we love the partner who spared us that fate.” — Alain de Botton
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” — Anais Nin
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“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing…” — Osho
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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
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“The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn’t exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently … Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.” — Alain de Botton
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“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” — Ambrose Bierce
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
“GPS Theory” when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn’t judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You’ll make mistakes, but your destination doesn’t vanish. The route just changes. — https://substack.com/@practicalstoicadvice