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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Colin Powell

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Action Condition Destiny Energy Fulfillment Health Organism
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Expression Need Policemen World
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign 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

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