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Best Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

Joy in the Thing people say; but in reality it is joy in itself by means of the thing."

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of presumptions.”

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

“Nobody is responsible for his actions, nobody for his nature; to judge is identical with being unjust.”

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

“The shortness of human life misleads us into forming many erroneous ideas about the qualities of man.”

Success often gives an action the whole honest glamour of a good conscience; failure casts the shadow of remorse over the most estimable deed.

No life without pleasure; the struggle for pleasure is the struggle for life.

“The promise to love someone forever is, therefore, really: So long as I love you I will act towards you.”

“Joy in common, pleasure enjoyed together is increased, it gives the individual security, makes him good-tempered, and dispels mistrust and envy.”

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

A brave army is convinced of the cause for which it fights.

“One would live at last amongst men, and with one's self as with Nature, without praise, reproach, or agitation"

Passion will not wait; the tragedy in the lives of great men frequently lies not in their conflict with the times and the baseness of their fellow-men, but in their incapacity of postponing their work for a year or two; they cannot wait.

“There are those amongst them who never let a day pass without hanging a little hymn of praise on its trailing fringe.”

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

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It's not about achieving the goal. It's about who you have to become in order to achieve the goal. The juice is in the growth.

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry… but it can introduce the idea that we may even become friends.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.