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Well Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. – Buckminster Fuller

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius

I can well understand why children love sand. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I think the foremost quality, there’s no success without it, is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at. – Malcolm Forbes

If I had my life over again, I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. – Muriel Spark

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. – Marcus Aurelius

Mirrors would do well to think before they cast their reflections back at us. – Jean Cocteau

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. – Peter Ustinov

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Neils Bohr

The single most important ingredient is energy well directed. – Louis Lundbor

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in there’s no longer the sun or the moon, there’s the truth. – Sciascia

The way to finish well tomorrow is by finishing well today. – Boyd Bailey

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. – Maya Angelou

Call in well. Get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well. – Tom Robbins

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