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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
Related topics: Motivational Leadership
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
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- 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
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
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.
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
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
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
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
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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
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
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
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