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“Write down somewhere in the margins on this page your answer to this question: How have you changed . . . lately? In the last week, let’s say? Or in the last month? The last year? Can you be very specific? Or must your answer be incredibly vague? You say you’re growing. Okay . . . how? “Well,” you say, “In all kinds of ways.” Great! Name one. You see, effective teaching comes only through a changed person. The more you change, the more you become an instrument of change in the lives of others. If you want to become a change agent, you also must change.2 Change the leader—change the organization.”
― John C. Maxwell

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Everything yields to diligence”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place
― Leo Tolstoy

both success and failure are largely the results of habit!” 
― Napoleon Hill

“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.”
― Mother Teresa

“I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose.”
― Brian Tracy

“You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst.”
― John C. Maxwell

“You were seen, you were heard and you matter.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.”
― Billy Graham

“They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.
― Leo Tolstoy

“All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.”
― John F. Kennedy

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