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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

Colin Powell

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
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
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
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
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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Country Division Ourselves Person Rejoice Togetherness

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