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“French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, “The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.” The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is more than management. Leadership is: • People more than projects • Movement more than maintenance • Art more than science • Intuition more than formula • Vision more than procedure • Risk more than caution • Action more than reaction • Relationships more than rules • Who you are more than what you do If you want to influence others, then you must learn to lead.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Our greatest power doesn’t always emerge from our experiences, not even from our most intense ones. There’s incredible hidden treasure locked up in your instincts that may not always show on your résumé. If you can spend some time with yourself, you may be on the verge of the most powerful part of your life, discovering what’s inside that your instincts want to express outside. Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge.”
― T.D. Jakes

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
― Mother Teresa

“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”
― Frank Herbert

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You’ve been destined to live in victory, destined to overcome, destined to leave your mark on this generation.”
― Joel Osteen

“I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.”
― Albert Einstein

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.”
― Rick Warren

“I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance. Even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In, short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these and all who work for them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Whenever I’m faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you’ve been searching for comes into focus.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“People who think they’re leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.”
― John C. Maxwell

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