Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."
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Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them."
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"A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them."
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"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors."
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"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
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"Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong."
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"Nobody loves you when you're down and out."
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"I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something."
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"Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?"
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"Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down."
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"When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do."
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"The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard"
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"The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing."
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"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories."
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"Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it."
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"Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour."
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"Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will."
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"Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice."
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"Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you."
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"I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope."
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"You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it."
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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