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  • Who said: Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
  • Who said: The best way to predict your future is to create it.
  • Who said: You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
  • Who said: Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
  • Who said: It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
  • Who said: Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
  • Who said: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
  • Who said: In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
  • Who said: Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
  • Who said: The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
  • Who said: You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
  • Who said: Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  • Who said: Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
  • Who said: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
  • Who said: People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
  • Who said: I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
  • Who said: I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
  • Who said: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
  • Who said: Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
  • Who said: Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
  • Who said: If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things
  • Who said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
  • Who said: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
  • Who said: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
  • Who said: Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
  • Who said: As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
  • Who said: I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
  • Who said: The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
  • Who said: He that can have patience can have what he will.
  • Who said: If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
  • Who said: Life is not fair; get used to it.
  • Who said: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
  • Who said: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
  • Who said: If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask what they believe, just observe what they do.
  • Who said: Do one thing every day that scares you.
  • Who said: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
  • Who said: Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
  • Who said: All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
  • Who said: Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
  • Who said: To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
  • Who said: Two truths cannot contradict one another.
  • Who said: Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
  • Who said: Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
  • Who said: How long should you try? Until.
  • Who said: If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
  • Who said: Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values
  • Who said: You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
  • Who said: You can't soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.
  • Who said: Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
  • Who said: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
  • Who said: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
  • Who said: Where there is love there is life.
  • Who said: I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
  • Who said: If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
  • Who said: People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
  • Who said: If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
  • Who said: The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
  • Who said: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
  • Who said: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
  • Who said: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
  • Who said: The time is always right to do what is right.
  • Who said: True friends stab you in the front.
  • Who said: A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
  • Who said: Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
  • Who said: Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
  • Who said: The most precious thing that we all have with us is time.
  • Who said: You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
  • Who said: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
  • Who said: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  • Who said: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
  • Who said: The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
  • Who said: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  • Who said: You never fail until you stop trying.
  • Who said: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
  • Who said: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
  • Who said: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
  • Who said: Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
  • Who said: A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.
  • Who said: Face your fears and you will be able to conquer them.
  • Who said: Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
  • Who said: Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
  • Who said: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
  • Who said: Comfort is the enemy of achievement
  • Who said: I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.
  • Who said: Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process.
  • Who said: The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
  • Who said: You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson.
  • Who said: I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him
  • Who said: Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.
  • Who said: Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
  • Who said: You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
  • Who said: Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
  • Who said: The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
  • Who said: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
  • Who said: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
  • Who said: Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
  • Who said: Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
  • Who said: Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
  • Who said: Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
  • Who said: I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  • Who said: If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
  • Who said: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
  • Who said: If you're going through hell, keep going.

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