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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill.

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius.

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky.

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker.

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, *A Tale of Two Cities*.

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, *Anna Karenina*.

“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, *Moby Dick*.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, *The Great Gatsby*.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, *Pride and Prejudice*.

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare, *Hamlet*.

“Big Brother is watching you.” – George Orwell, *1984*.

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, *The Hobbit*.

“It was a pleasure to burn.” – Ray Bradbury, *Fahrenheit 451*.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” – Charlotte Brontë, *Jane Eyre*.

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, *A Farewell to Arms*.

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, and yet she seemed to be setting the room on fire.” – Truman Capote, *Breakfast at Tiffany’s*.

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes.

“To be is to do.” – Socrates.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates.

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre.

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle.

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde.

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo.

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.” – Epictetus.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein.

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein.

“In science, there is no darkness, only ignorance.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.

“We are made of star-stuff.” – Carl Sagan.

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” – Theodosius Dobzhansky.

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein.

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding.” – Clifford Stoll.

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” – Louis Pasteur.

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” – Abraham Lincoln.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton.

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy.

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein.

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” – Abraham Lincoln.

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” – Alexis de Tocqueville.

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson.

“Politics is the art of the possible.” – Otto von Bismarck.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson.

“I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.” – Unknown.

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin.

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey.

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown.

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Unknown.

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright.

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Unknown.

“I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.” – Unknown.

“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.” – Unknown.

“I’m not procrastinating, I’m just prioritizing my laziness.” – Unknown.

“My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.” – Unknown.

“I don’t need therapy, I just need to rant to someone who can’t interrupt.” – Unknown.

“Four score and seven years ago…” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address.

“We shall fight on the beaches…” – Winston Churchill.

“I have a dream…” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” – Ronald Reagan.

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” – Patrick Henry.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong.

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” – John F. Kennedy.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” – Nathan Hale.

“Eureka! I have found it!” – Archimedes.

“Veni, vidi, vici.” – Julius Caesar.

“I came, I saw, God conquered.” – James Wolfe.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle.

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott.

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

“Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short.” – Friedrich von Hardenberg.

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn.

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown.

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” – Maya Angelou.

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu.

“If I had to define love in one word, I would say… forever.” – Unknown.

“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë.

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn.

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha.

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin.

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin.

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy.

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu.

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams.

“Time is an illusion.” – Albert Einstein.

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Watterson.

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.” – Harvey Mackay.

“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” – Faith Baldwin.

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford.

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill.

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan.

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates.

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote.

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.” – Napoleon Hill.

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” – Steve Jobs.

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford.

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford.

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis.

“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone.

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington.