Be a voice not an echo.

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell

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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. — Picabo Street

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In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ― Nelson Mandela

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