Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
CONDOLEEZZA RICELeading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill – not because we’re perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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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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My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
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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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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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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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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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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
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But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
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As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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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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There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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We’re in a new world. We’re in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn’t act.
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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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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you’ll do it well.
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