If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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