Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

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Be a voice not an echo.

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

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Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ― Tim Notke

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It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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Growth inside fuels growth outside.

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Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

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