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Quotes for the Commonplace Book

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius 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

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."
Hellen Keller

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
Orville Wright

“I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been ratified by the mere facts."
G.K.Chesterton

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
Robert Louis Stevenson