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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

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
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
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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Love Man Togetherness Yourself
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Depression Fall Intensity Leadership Passion Start 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
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
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Clothes Himself Organization Rebel Tolerance
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection

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

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