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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

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
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
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
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
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
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
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
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
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
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust

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