Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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