We need a common enemy to unite us.
CONDOLEEZZA RICESelf esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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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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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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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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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
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Education is of no value and talent is worthless – unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
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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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The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
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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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Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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