Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

QUOTES

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed."

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

Inspirational Quotes by the creator of Mickey Mouse - "Walt Disney".

Walt Disney was an American animator, entrepreneur, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.

As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors.

Quotes By Walt Disney ””.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess

I believe in being an innovator.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

Inspirational Quotes by Eminem

Eminem is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. Throughout his career, he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014, Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth best-selling artist in the United States and the best-selling hip-hop artist. Globally, he has sold more than 172 million albums, thus being one of the world's best-selling artists. Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop.

QUOTES :

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Rap was my drug.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Inspirational Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

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

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

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

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.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Inspirational Quotes

Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Manchester United He was also a member of the Sweden national team , making his senior international debut in 2001 and serving as captain from 2010 until he retired from international football in 2016. Primarily a striker , he is a prolific goalscorer , who is best known for his technique, creativity, strength, ability in the air, and his powerful and accurate striking ability. As of February 2017 , he is the second most decorated active footballer in the world , having won 32 trophies in his career .

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's "Quotes"

You never forget where you come from.
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
I always drive like a madman.
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.

Michael Jordan's Inspirational Quotes.

Michael Jordan is an retired american professional basketball player,owner and chairman of Charlotte Hornets . Michael Jordan has played 15 Seasons in National Basketball Association (NBA), and has NBA champions 6 times and is also known as the best Basketball player . Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards , ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP Awards , ten scoring titles , three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP Awards , and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award . Among his numerous accomplishments, Jordan holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game).

Michael Jordan's "Quotes"

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.

Winning isn't always championships.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Bill Gates(the Founder of Microsoft) Inspirational Quotes.

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, author, investor, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief software architect and CEO and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.

Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. “
“I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. “
“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.”
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve”
‘Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose”
“By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down”
“China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%”
“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them”
“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard”
“The future of advertising is the Internet”
“Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up”
“Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources”
“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point”
“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy”
“I get more spam than anyone I know”
“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts”
“I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in”
“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering”
“Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings”
“In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching”
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act”
“If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble”
“Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it”
“Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people”
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters”

Motivational Quotes by the co-founder of Facebook "Mark Zuckerberg".

Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Facebook, and currently operates as its chairman and chief executive officer. His net worth is estimated to be US$63.3 billion as of May 2017, and he is ranked by Forbes as the fifth richest person in the world.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place.

There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

We're running the company to serve more people.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes

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