Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

delicate-looking woman have the courage to sneak through enemy-held territory with her secret information? It turned out that sh ...

Louis Braille Blind from age three, Louis Braille learned to read at a school for the blind in Paris where, at that time, books ...

when inspiration struck him. He soon developed a code for each letter of the alphabet, with numbers and symbols like periods and ...

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur’s germ theory was a breakthrough in medicine. He then went on to figure out how to prevent diseases ...

Pasteur discovered that cholera bacteria that had been left to grow old and weak would not make the birds very sick; in fact, in ...

Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point, created a sensation: It contained original thinking with huge ...

reliable. He also says that if you work at learning and practicing how to do something, you can tap the power of your subconscio ...

Marie Curie You must be an exceedingly clever scientist to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry or physics. There is one person who wo ...

radiation came from atoms. It was an enormous breakthrough, and she was still just a student. In the years to come, she and her ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr., highly intelligent, well educated, and a believer in the philosophy of Mahatma ...

oppose violence was with non-violence, and that quiet, peaceful protests would accomplish more than fighting. This was not easy ...

Martti Ahtisaari On the basis of his reputation as an avid peacemaker who had been sent by the United Nations to many parts of t ...

Ahtisaari’s work was challenging and sometimes dangerous; he often had to persuade armed and angry groups to calm down enough to ...

Mattie Stepanek Mattie Stepanek was a remarkable child who wrote inspirational poetry, raised funds for muscular dystrophy, and ...

fighting muscular dystrophy, and to become an advocate for world peace and for aid for children with disabilities. He made a wid ...

Maude Abbott Maude Abbott wanted to become a doctor at a time when women were not allowed to study medicine. Eventually, she bec ...

At that point, McGill University accepted her, giving her an honorary medical degree and a job as a professor. She set up their ...

Maya Angelou Though her life as a child and teenager was dark and difficult, Maya Angelou emerged to become a world-renowned wri ...

around her, and to improve herself along the way. With her strong will and work ethic, Maya Angelou succeeded everywhere - touri ...

Michael Jordan Although he was already an outstanding athlete, in Grade 10 Michael Jordan was told he wouldn’t be picked for the ...