Differences can be a strength.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEMost days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you’re going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I’m not that complicated. I’m pretty straightforward. And I’m not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.
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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.
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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.
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Education is of no value and talent is worthless – unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
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In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
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