100 most famous quotes Flashcards

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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”​

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Thomas A. Edison

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”​

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Albert Einstein

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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”​

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Walt Disney

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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”​

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Marcus Aurelius

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

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Mark Twain

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“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”​

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Mother Teresa

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”​

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Martin Luther King Jr

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”​

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Helen Keller

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

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Henry Ford

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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

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Benjamin Franklin

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”​

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Confucius

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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Thomas Jefferson

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”​

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Abraham Lincoln

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”​

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”​

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Mahatma Gandhi

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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”

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Helen Keller

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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”​

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Maya Angelou

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”​

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William Shakespeare

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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”​

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Vincent Van Gogh

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

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Mark Twain

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“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

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Thomas Paine

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“In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”

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Mother Teresa

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“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”​

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Albert Einstein

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."​
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Not all those who wander are lost."​
J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
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"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."​
Bruce Lee
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"Do one thing every day that scares you."​
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
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"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."​
Ayn Rand
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"It always seems impossible until it’s done."​
Nelson Mandela
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"I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."​
Anne Frank
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"Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."​
James Dean
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"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
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"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."​
J.K. Rowling
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"You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down."
Charlie Chaplin
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."​
Muhammad Ali
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"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."​
Elon Musk
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"The future starts today, not tomorrow."​
John F. Kennedy:
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Plato
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
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"Turn your wounds into wisdom."​
Oprah Winfrey
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"You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same."
Lady Gaga
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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton
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"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."
Vince Lombardi
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."
Albert Camus
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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
Benjamin Franklin
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"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."​
George Bernard Shaw
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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."​
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."​
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
Pope John Paul II
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"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open."​
Frank Zappa
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"In order to write about life first you must live it."​
Ernest Hemingway
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"Stay hungry, stay foolish."​
Steve Jobs
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"I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best."​
Marilyn Monroe
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"Don’t count the days, make the days count."​
Muhammad Ali
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"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."​
Paulo Coelho
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"Little by little, one travels far."​
J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."​
Mark Twain
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."​
John Dalberg-Acton
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."​
George Santayana
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."​
Charlie Chaplin
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."​
Socrates
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"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
Marilyn Monroe
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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
Thomas Jefferson
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"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."​
Malcolm X
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."​
Albert Einstein
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"God helps those that help themselves."
Benjamin Franklin
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."​
John Muir
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"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Confucius
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."​
Winston Churchill
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"The best revenge is massive success."
Frank Sinatra
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"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
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"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Steve Jobs
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace"​
Benjamin Franklin
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"The only way it gets better for you is when you get better."​
Jim Rohn
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"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
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"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
Elbert Hubbard
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"When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults"​
Confucius
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"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I’m possible'!"
Audrey Hepburn
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"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder"
Rumi
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"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."​
Maya Angelou
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."​
Steve Jobs
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"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.