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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

Colin Powell

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Constitution Discrimination Origin Reason
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

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