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“We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.” 
― Billy Graham

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“People who achieve their potential do so because they invest in themselves every day.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Everything yields to diligence”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
― Brian Tracy

“Just because we are anointed for leadership does not mean that we get to move immediately into a position of leadership. There is a work that has to be done in us, a testing that has to take place first. Later, we will look at some of the tests of the heart of a leader that we must go through before we get promoted.
― Joyce Meyer

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Bruce Lee

“Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard”
― Barack Obama

“You can have reasons or results. You can’t have both.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” 
― John F. Kennedy

“What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification—worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.”
― Billy Graham

“Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous ‘Pennsylvania optimism’ I've heard so much about..." --from the recently discovered preamble to Gettysburg Address”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Perhaps the twentieth-century Senator is not called upon to risk his entire future on one basic issue in the manner of Edmund Ross or Thomas Hart Benton. Perhaps our modern acts of political courage do not arouse the public in the manner that crushed the career of Sam Houston and John Quincy Adams. Still, when we realize that a newspaper that chooses to denounce a Senator today can reach many thousand times as many voters as could be reached by all of Daniel Webster’s famous and articulate detractors put together, these stories of twentieth-century political courage have a drama, an excitement—and an inspiration—all their own.”
― John F. Kennedy

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