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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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