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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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World Leaders
Leader
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leader
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Barack Obama
Leader
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
- Winston Churchill
Leader
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
- Nelson Mandela
Leader
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
- Ronald Reagan
Leader
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
- John C. Maxwell
Leader
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
- Ralph Nader
Leader
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
- Warren Bennis
Freedom Fighters
Freedom
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry
Freedom
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
- Nelson Mandela
Freedom
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson
Scientists & Innovators
Science
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
Science
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Science
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
- John F. Kennedy
Science
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
- Edward Teller
Science
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie
Science
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion."
- Stephen Hawking
Science
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
Philosophers & Thinkers
Philosophy
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"I think, therefore I am."
- René Descartes
Philosophy
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
- Søren Kierkegaard
Philosophy
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle
Philosophy
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha
Philosophy
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
- Dalai Lama
Writers & Poets
Literature
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Literature
"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
- Martin Luther
Literature
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou
Literature
"You can make anything by writing."
- C.S. Lewis
Literature
"A word after a word after a word is power."
- Margaret Atwood
Literature
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic."
- J.K. Rowling
Literature
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
- Anaïs Nin
Literature
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
- Anaïs Nin
Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders
Business
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Business
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Business
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
- Steve Jobs
Business
"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."
- Reid Hoffman
Business
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
- Mark Zuckerberg
Business
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Business
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison
Business
"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."
- Ingvar Kamprad
Artists & Creatives
Art
"Every artist was first an amateur."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Pablo Picasso
Art
"Creativity takes courage."
- Henri Matisse
Art
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
- Vincent van Gogh
Art
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
- Pablo Picasso
Art
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
- Edgar Degas
Art
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."