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Here are memorable quotes by John F. Kennedy:

🇺🇸 On Service & Citizenship

• “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

• “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.”

🌍 On Freedom & Human Rights

• “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden… to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

• “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

🚀 On Progress & Space

• “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

• “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

🧠 On Leadership & Change

• “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

• “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

— by John F. Kennedy

Here are some quotes by Thomas A. Edison.

💡 On Invention

• “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

• “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility.”

• “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”

🏭 On Business & Practicality

• “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

• “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

• “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”

🔥 On Success & Determination

• “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

• “Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

• “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

Here are timeless quotes attributed to Laozi (Lao Tzu), traditionally credited as the author of the Tao Te Ching:

🌿 On Simplicity & Wisdom

• “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

• “Silence is a source of great strength.”

• “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

🌊 On Flow & Letting Go

• “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

• “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock.”

• “The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid.”

🧘 On Leadership

• “A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”

• “To lead people, walk behind them.”

• “When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’”

🌌 On Self-Knowledge

• “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

• “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”

• “Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— by Laozi