Powerful Quotes ….. read and be inspired!
June 5, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.–Mahatma Gandhi
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.–Aristotle
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Because you’re able to do it and because you have the right to do it doesn’t mean it’s right to do it. –Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.–John W. Gardner (“The aims of a Free People” Excellence)
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.–Albert Einstein (in a letter 11/20/50)
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I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.–Oprah Winfrey
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. –Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
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“The circumstances of our lives have as much power as we choose to give them” -David McNally
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
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Character–the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life–is the source from which self-respect springs.–Joan Didion
