If we had no

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~ Anne Bradstreet

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Leadership is not magnetic personality–that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’–that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Silence is a source of great strength.

~ Lao Tzu

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

~ Jean de La Fontaine

First thing every morning before you arise out of bed, say out loud three times “I believe I can.”

~ Unknown

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

~ Peter McWilliams

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

~ Samuel Smiles

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Much learning does not teach understanding.

~ Heraclitus

Accept everything about yourself I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end no apologies, no regrets.

~ Clark Moustakas

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