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“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Frank Outlaw

“You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.” – Warren Bennis

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.” – Charles de Lint

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.” – John Kotter

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.” – Cullen Hightower

“The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.” – Paul J. Meyer

“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss

“If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” – Clayton Christensen

“One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” — Edmond Mbiaka

“Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan

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“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply” – Stephen Covey

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.” – Ralph W. Sockman

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” – Confucius