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Ability
Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life.
- Dr. David M. Burns
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Goethe
Achievement
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Inspirational
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln
Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
- Vince Lombardi
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
- William Allen White
Nearly all men can stand adveristy, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learning
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
- Charlotte Bronte
The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.
- Jean Piaget
More than any other reason, quality in clinical education had depended on the presence of sufficient time in medical practice to allow learners to learn and teachers to teach.
- Kenneth Ludmerer
Other
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.
- Sir Josiah Stamp
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.
- Lame Deer, Minnicoujou
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