Inspirational Sayings

218 sayings found from the Modern era from 218 authors

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

— Charles Darwin Post-1809
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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing 1950
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. Such a nation would be crippled, one-armed, disabled diseased.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

— Vladimir Lenin Early 20th century
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

— Fidel Castro Unknown
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The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

— Che Guevara 1965
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Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

— Ho Chi Minh Unknown
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I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

— Jawaharlal Nehru Unknown
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The sick are victims of their own imagination.

— Pol Pot Unknown
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I rule Uganda because Uganda needs my strength.

— Idi Amin c. 1971-1979
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

— John D. Rockefeller unknown
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Never tell me to my face that you are a friend of mine, for I will not believe you. I have no friends.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt unknown
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

— Mark Twain c. 1898
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I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.

— Jane Austen 1811
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There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1838
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The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein Undetermined
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I have not invented a 'death ray'. I don't need a 'death ray' to destroy an army. I can simply create a vibratory force that would shatter the earth.

— Nikola Tesla 1930s
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Happy is the man who has a vocation which he can follow with passion.

— Louis Pasteur Late 19th Century (approx.)
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I am no poet, but if you think for a moment of the energy that is in a single drop of water, you will see a poetry in it.

— Michael Faraday Mid 19th Century (approx.)
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