Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity."
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?"
Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"You can pay for school, but you can't buy class"
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"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
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"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
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"You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do."
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"The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations."
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"Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens."
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"Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment."
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"Everybody in life is a chameleon."
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"That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us."
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"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
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"it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it."
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"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
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"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"
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"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world."
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"Everything depends on upbringing."
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"The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves."
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"If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."
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"Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life."
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"If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them."
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"The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER."
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"The right thing and the easy thing are never the same."
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