"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
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"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others."
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"Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep."
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"In times of change, learners inherit the earth"
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"If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood."
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"I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal."
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything."
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"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them."
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"You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right."
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"Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."
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"Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere."
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"What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat."
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"The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused."
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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
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"It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny."
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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
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"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
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