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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

—Plato, The Republic
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #virtue #inspiration #goodness #community
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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

—Rabindranath Tagore, The Centre of Indian Culture
Category: WisdomMood: BoldTags: #teaching #authenticity #inner-light #inspiration
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Inspiration is a slender river of light flowing from the boundless ocean above.

—Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry
Category: CreativityMood: SereneTags: #inspiration #light #creativity #ocean
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

—Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: CreativityMood: MotivationalTags: #inspiration #discipline #work-ethic #craft
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A courageous leader inspires an entire army to victory.

—Chanakya, Arthashastra
Category: LeadershipMood: MotivationalTags: #leadership #courage #inspiration #victory
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, but the spiritual inspiration that comes when you discover that someone believes in you.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
Category: Philosophy & WisdomMood: RomanticTags: #ralph-waldo-emerson #friendship #faith #inspiration #connection
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Great men exist that there may be greater men.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Category: Philosophy & WisdomMood: MotivationalTags: #ralph-waldo-emerson #greatness #inspiration #evolution #humanity
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star.

—Confucius, The Analects, Book II, Chapter 1
Category: Leadership & SovereigntyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #confucius #leadership #virtue #moral-authority #inspiration
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

—W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: LeadershipMood: MotivationalTags: #education #inspiration #fire #learning
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