Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGo for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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