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1. “If you are waiting for success to share your failure story, you have not yet understood failure well.”

Ankur Warikoo

Failure, Success, Understanding, Story, Humility

2. “Success we all get to see. Stories we rarely get to hear. The lesson is in the story. Not the success.”

Ankur Warikoo

Success, Story, Lesson, Journey, Wisdom

3. “If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Story, Experience, Drama, Reality

4. “Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Story, Voice, Truth, Journey

5. “Every morning has a unique story. There are always some seeds of possibilities waiting to sprout.”

Amit Ray

Morning, Story, Possibilities, Growth, New Beginnings

6. “Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.”

Charlie Chaplin

Time, Fate, Story, Life, Ending

7. “Caution is the lower story of prudence.”

Thomas Carlyle

Caution, Prudence, Lower, Story, Wisdom

8. “Don’t rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Time, Patience, Story, Change

9. “That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Scary, Story, Fear, Terror, Healing

10. “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Dramatic, Story, Life, Past, Future

11. “We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Adventure, Life, Story, Survival, Drama

12. “The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Youth, Story, Risk, Challenge, Legacy

13. “Our first invention was the story.”

Ray Kurzweil

Invention, Story, History, Creativity, Communication

14. “Logic: yes, where is logic? Where is it, for instance, in the next moment of my story?”

Julian Barnes

Logic, Story, Confusion, Perspective, Understanding

15. “Susan had pointed out that everyone has their love story. Even if it was a fiasco, even if it fizzled out, never got going, had all been in the mind to begin with: that didn’t make it any the less real. And it was the only story.”

Julian Barnes

Love, Memory, Story, Emotion, Life

16. “Perhaps love could never be captured in a definition; it could only ever be captured in a story.”

Julian Barnes

Love, Story, Definition, Emotion, Experience

17. “And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another’s future.”

Max Lucado

Story, Testimony, Faith, Encouragement, Sharing

18. “When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”

George Washington

Story, Mind, Perspective, Bias, Understanding

19. “If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.”

Pablo Picasso

Sayings, Explosion, Story, Context, Understanding

20. “In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”

Jeff Bezos

Choices, Story, Legacy, Decision Making, Personal Growth

21. “Meet Mrs. Bundren, he says.”

William Faulkner

Introduction, Character, Narrative, Story, Family

22. “The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.”

Philip Pullman

Book, Poem, Story, Literary Purpose, Artistic Magic

23. “Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.”

Philip Pullman

Story, Interpretation, Patterns, Imaginative Analysis, Subjective Meaning

24. “No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

Cassandra Clare

One, Villain, Story, Self-Justification, Perceived Innocence

25. “Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.”

Suzanne Collins

Story, Futuristic, Freedom, Modern Reflection, Subtle Criticism

26. “There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.”

Aesop

Fable, Fairy Tale, Humans, Morality, Story

27. “One story sounds good until another is told.”

Aesop

Story, Truth, Perspective, Judgment, Reliability

28. “The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.”

Thomas Paine

Jonah, Whale, Story, Miracle, Marvelous

29. “Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”

Donald Trump

Success, Story, Leadership, Confidence, Future

30. “Don’t let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that’s happened.”

Anne Rice

Story, Growth, Empowerment, Learning, Reflection

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