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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
by Colin Powell

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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