Inspiring Quotes - Page 32

• We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

  James Levine

  Mothers Day, Men, Issues

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• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  Ogden Nash

  Mothers Day, Dog, Juice

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• You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Strong

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• It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

  Maura Tierney

  Life, Lucky, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

  Anais Nin

  Artist, Empowering, Magic

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• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Graduation, Opportunity, Impact

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

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• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Serious, Mysterious

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• Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opposites, Empowering, Engagement

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  Nelson Mandela

  Enjoy Life, Challenges, Disease

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Thinking, Effort

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• A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Warrior

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• There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

  Joan Kirner

  Empowering, Decision, Political

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Smart, Thinking, Long

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• Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Fire, Play

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Numbers, Empowering

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

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• A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

  Erna Solberg

  Mother, Issues, Economic

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• So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Order, Sorrow

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Soul, Influential

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Tattoo, People, Inner Strength

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• Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

  David Maister

  Teaching, Students, Professionalism

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• What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

  David Maister

  Determination, Persistence, Inspire

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• Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

  David Maister

  Leader, Succeed, Professionalism

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• No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

  David Maister

  Believe, Giving, Professionalism

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• Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

  David Maister

  Determined, Professionalism, Consequence

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• I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

  David Maister

  Believe, Ifs And, Goal

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