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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”