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“Have a vision. Be demanding.”
— Colin Powell
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”
— Nelson Mandela
“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
— Carl Sandburg
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
— Malcolm Forbes
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Leadership starts at the top.”
— Morgan Wootten
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”
— Eric Hoffer
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
— Walt Whitman
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”
— Sigmund Freud
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
— Dalai Lama
“Fortunate are those who take the first steps.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
— Stephen Hawking

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