Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEToday’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
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There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
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Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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We can’t rely – or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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