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Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.

  • " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "
  • " It always seems impossible until it's done. "
  • " I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. "
  • " Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. 
  • " If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.  "
  • " To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. "
  • As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
  • There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
  • A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
  • If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
  • Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
  • After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
  • There is no such thing as part freedom.
  • Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
  • There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
  • I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances
  • On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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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?'

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Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only player in history to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and the first to win three European Golden Shoes.[note 2] With Barcelona he has won eight La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles, and four Copas del Rey, among other trophies. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals scored in La Liga, a La Liga season (50), and a club football season in Europe (73), a calendar year (91), as well as those for most assists made in La Liga and the Copa América. He has scored over 500 senior career goals for club and country.You have to fight to reach your dream.

"Quotes'

.There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
 

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
                           

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
                           

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.
                           

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
                           

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
                           

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.
                           

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.
                           

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.
                           

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.
                           

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.
                           

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always 
                           

The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.
                           

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.
                           

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.
                           

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.
                           

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.
                           

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
                           

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
                           

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
                           

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
 

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Conor McGregor is an Irish is a professional martial artist who is currently signed with the Ultimate Fighiting Championship.  In 2008, McGregor started his mixed martial arts (MMA) career and, in 2012 , he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships , he held both the titles concurrently before vacating them before to sign for UFC on 2013. Upon defeating Eddie Alvarez for the UFC Lightweight Championship at UFC 205, McGregor became the first fighter in the UFC's history to hold titles in two weight divisions simultaneously. He is also known for being the biggest pay-per-view draw in MMA .   

McGregor's  "Quotes"

“Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best .”

“I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.“

 “I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.”

“I'll die a crazy old man!”

“That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.”

“The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.”

“I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.”

“When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.”

“I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.”

“I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.”

“I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.”

“Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.”

“I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.”

“Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.”

“I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.”

“What can I say? I'm a talker.”

“It's good to make your brain work more than your body.”

“I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.”

“I knew I'd be in the UFC since I started my career.”

“The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.”

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Inspiring and motivational quotes of  By Swami Vivekanand.

  1. Purity, perseverance, and energy— these three I want.
  2. Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
  3. Say, "I can do everything" "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." 
  4. Say, "This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone."
  5. Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work— this is the only way.
  6. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
  7. "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"— this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".
  8. The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
  9.  Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison.
  10. Talk to yourself at  least  once in a Day. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an  EXCELLENT person in this World.
  11. Relationships are more important than life , but it is important for those relationships to have life in them.
  12.  You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
  13. Like me or Hate me,
    both are in my favor,
    If you like me I am in your Heart,
    If you hate me I am in your mind. –
  14. BY the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one. -
  15.  Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
  16. Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that  will come great work.
  17. Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
  18.  You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
  19. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death. 
  20. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. 'I will drink the ocean', says the persevering soul, 'at my will mountains will crumble up.' Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. 
  21. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. 
  22. We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
  23. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
  24. We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
  25. Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be.
  26. 3 golden words from Swami Vivekananda

  • Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them.
  • Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them .
  • Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.
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Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age" and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

QUOTES -

  1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started
  2. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
  3. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
  4. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
  5. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
  6. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
  7. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  8. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
  9. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
  10. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
  11. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
  12. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
  13. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
  14. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
  15. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
  16. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
  17. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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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.

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 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 artistsRolling 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.

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