Quotes of Benjamin Banneker

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I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

- Benjamin Banneker

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“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

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“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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- Colleen Houck

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- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

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“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

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“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

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“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

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“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

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