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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Related topics: Motivational Leadership
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
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