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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Colin Powell

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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Follow Forever Important Learning Personal Soldier
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy 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
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
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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People Perspective Right 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
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
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
Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don’t mean necessarily “buddy-buddy”, just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they’re with you.
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Happiness Kindness Necessary People Treat Worth Yourself
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust

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