
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy
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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

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.Abraham Lincoln

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.Walt Whitman

You become what you believe.Oprah Winfrey

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau

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

Ain't I a woman?Sojourner Truth

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.Frederick Douglass

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.Frederick Douglass

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.Barack Obama

Turn your wounds into wisdom.Oprah Winfrey

Well done is better than well said.Benjamin Franklin

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.Lord Byron

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Muhammad Ali

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.Ernest Hemingway

Diligence is the mother of good luck.Benjamin Franklin

Dwell on the beauty of life.Marcus Aurelius

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.Emily Dickinson

You are your best thing.Toni Morrison

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.Theodore Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass

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

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.Kwame Nkrumah

Miles to go before I sleep.Robert Frost

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.Martin Luther King Jr.

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