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I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill
Best Satisfied Easily Am Very
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
Leadership You Celebrate People Better Victory Will Nice Others Danger Take Lead Put Occur Line Front Front Line Behind Then Your Nice Things Things Appreciate
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Work People Competition Try First Group Those Kinds Take Less Who Credit Two
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man Mistakes Idiot Only Make His Error Persists Any
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. Anthony Carmona
Positive Family Communication Social Media Fly Websites Sense Battleground Destroying Longer Performing Envisaged Self-Esteem Insults Self-Worth Link Friends Person Human Where Social Creating Function Media Professionals Lives Among Damaging
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Beautiful Science Humanity Gift Distort Should
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. Winston Churchill
Speak Men Long Society State Minds May Where Endure Cannot
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga
Democracy Corruption Law Debate Power Accountability Rule Rule Of Law Must Solutions Indignation Through Open Share Sharing Abuse Built Subjugation Information Societies Enlightenment
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
Motivational Life You Passion Living Settling Small Than Capable Less Found Playing
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great Silence Conversation Arts
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. Daniel Webster
Judgment Frame Hasty See Seems How Which Little Really Who
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. Nelson Mandela
Injustice World Rest Long Poverty Our Our World Inequality None Truly Persist Us Gross
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man Trials Brainy Gem Polished Without Nor Friction Cannot
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
Wisdom You Man Heart Language He Head Talk Him Understands His Goes
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Winston Churchill
Politics War You Once Only Times Many
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
Opportunity Pessimist Every Difficulty Sees Optimist Every Opportunity
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. Colin Powell
Education Family Self-Respect Commitment Reading Duty Caring System Jobs Civic More Only High-Quality Fairness Learn Math Get Children Want Gain Them Avoid Deserve Violence Need
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger
Mind Absence Clears Alternatives
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. Winston Churchill
Criticism Pain State Attention Calls Same May Human Human Body Unhealthy Body Agreeable Function Things Necessary
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion Wise People Rulers True False Common Regarded Common People Useful
More law, less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice Law More Less
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Mwai Kibaki
Leadership Better Opportunity Greed Others Privilege Personal Satisfy Lives
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Nelson Mandela
Good You Debate Stronger Leader Arrogant Other Good Leader Side Thoroughly Frankly Must Superficial Emerge He Idea Thus Knowing End Closer Engage Uninformed
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom Wise Experience Quotations Ages
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill
Success Saying Best You Our Got Doing Succeed Use Necessary
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke
Service Construction People Will Become State Guides Instead Leaders Talents Make Instruments Auction Legislators Themselves Choose Popularity
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