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Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. — Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Barack Obama
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' — Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. — Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. — Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. — Barack Obama
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. — Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
Lord Byron
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. Tolkien
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart. — Kwame Nkrumah
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. — Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it. — James Baldwin
The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
James Baldwin
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. — Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
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