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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
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There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu 
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
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To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
If something is important to you,
attend to it immediately, and regularly.
If something is not really important to you,
that's great also -
just scratch it off your to-do list forever,
and never worry about it again.
Choose how you invest your time, and honor your choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A state of expectancy is a great asset;
a state of uncertainty -
one moment thinking "perhaps"
and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -
will never get desired results.
- Ernest Holmes
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
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