Inspirational Sayings

168 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 168 authors

I am not a great man; I'm a simple man who had a great dream.

— Ronald Reagan 1989
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We are not asking for the impossible. We are asking for our legitimate rights.

— Yasser Arafat 1988 (approx.)
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We must keep a clear head. We must not be carried away by success.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

— Kurt Cobain Unknown
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We have said we are now independent and we are masters of our destiny. That is true. But what is more important is our economy.

— Robert Mugabe 1980
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I believe in the power of human reason.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1990
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We have to be patient. We have to be persistent. We have to be brave.

— Boris Yeltsin 1992
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I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not a fan of gay marriage.

— Barack Obama 2008
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I think the only difference between me and other successful people is that I'm more honest.

— Donald Trump 1990
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Don't put success and money over everything else.

— Warren Buffett September 08, 2020 (Medium article citing Buffett)
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I will never give up. I will fight for freedom until my last breath.

— Lech Walesa 1980s
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

— Vaclav Havel 1986
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

— Desmond Tutu Uncertain
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Is it not possible for the judge to be wrong?

— Michel Foucault 1975
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky 1991
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The idea of a well-ordered society is an ideal that we should strive for, even if we can never fully achieve it.

— John Rawls 1993
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 1995
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I am the closest possible thing to James Bond that exists outside of fantasy.

— Andrew Tate Undated, widely circulated
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The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

— P.T. Barnum 1865
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Everything begins with reproduction. If we are to believe in the absolute beginning of the absolute, it must be the reproduction of the absolute.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
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